Tree to 35 m high. Stem usually buttressed. Twigs terete, eventually ± glabrescent. Leaves: petiole 6–11 mm long; lamina mainly elliptic, 5–8.8 cm long, 1.5–2.6 cm wide, not foveolate, green or ± glaucous below, pubescent. Inflorescence axillary, exceeding leaves. Flowers opening widely with tepals reflexed, creamy yellow, perfumed. Tepals pubescent: outer 1.6–2.4 mm long, 1.3–1.8 mm wide; inner 1.9–2.3 mm long, 1.7–1.8 mm wide. Anthers 0.7–1.1 mm long, 0.9–1.3 mm wide, pubescent abaxially, glabrous adaxially; filaments absent or to 0.1 mm long; valves opening inwards; glands absent. Staminodes 3, undifferentiated. Ovary 0.4–0.8 mm long, 0.5–0.9 mm wide, pubescent; style glabrous or with few hairs. Fruit usually depressed globular and laterally compressed, 43–55 mm long, 40–61 mm wide (longer axis), 35–55 mm wide (shorter axis), blue-black. Cotyledons creamy yellow.
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