Tree to 20 m high. Stem sometimes buttressed. Twigs mainly fluted, villous. Leaves: petiole 6–14 mm long; lamina lanceolate to elliptic, 8.5–15.5 cm long, 3.5–6 cm wide, sometimes foveolate, green and pubescent below. Inflorescence cymose or paniculate often with long slender peduncles, axillary, not exceeding leaves. Flowers scarcely opening with tepals geniculate, cream, pale green, perfume? Tepals villous abaxially, pubescent adaxially: outer 1.1–1.2 mm long, 2.1–2.4 mm wide; inner 1–1.4 mm long, 1.3–1.7 mm wide. Anthers 0.6–0.8 mm long, 0.4–0.6 mm wide, glabrous; filaments absent or c. 0.2 mm long, pubescent; valves opening outwards; glands 6; staminodes 3, ± differentiated. Ovary 0.7–1 mm long, 1.7–1 mm wide, glabrous; style glabrous. Fruit ellipsoidal, 28–30 mm long. Cotyledons cream.
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