Tree to 30 m high. Stem usually buttressed. Twigs fluted, tomentose. Leaves: petiole 6–16 mm long; lamina lanceolate, 7.5–16.5 cm long, 2–6.5 cm wide, not foveolate, green or slightly glaucous below, mainly pubescent. Inflorescence mainly axillary, exceeding leaves. Flowers opening fairly widely with tepals remaining ± erect, green, olive-green, not perfumed. Tepals pubescent: outer 1.9–3 mm long, 1.9–2.6 mm wide; inner 2.1–2.5 mm long, 1.5–2.1 mm wide. Anthers 0.5–0.6 mm long, 0.7–0.9 mm wide, glabrous; filaments 0.2–0.4 mm long, pubescent; valves opening outwards and sideways; glands fused forming disc. Staminodes indistinguishable (absent or fused with disc). Ovary 1.7–2.3 mm long, 1.2–1.7 mm wide, glabrous; style glabrous. Fruit ellipsoidal, 30–50 mm long, 17–27 mm wide, black, blue-black. Cotyledons pink, sometimes cream.