Tree to 35 m high. Stem buttressed. Twigs fluted, eventually ± glabrescent. Leaves: petiole 13–20 mm long; lamina lanceolate to elliptic, 11.5–14.5 cm long, 3.5–5 cm wide, not foveolate, glaucous below, eventually ± glabrescent. Inflorescence usually paniculate, sometimes almost racemose, not exceeding leaves. Flowers opening quite widely with tepals tips remaining erect, yellowish green inside, rusty brown outside, not perfumed. Tepals pubescent: outer 4.5–5.1 mm long, 4.7–5.2 mm wide; inner 3.3–4.1 mm long, 3.3–4.2 mm wide. Anthers 0.7–0.9 mm long, 0.8–0.9 mm wide, glabrous; filaments 0.2–0.5 mm long, pubescent; valves opening sideways; glands and staminodes fused forming disc. Ovary 1.7–1.9 mm long, 1.8–2.3 mm wide, pubescent or glabrous; style glabrous. Fruit ellipsoidal, globular, ovoid, 50–65 mm long, 35–50 mm wide, black, blue-black, sometimes glaucous. Cotyledons cream.
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