Tree to 30 m high. Stem buttressed. Twigs angular or terete, soon glabrescent. Leaves: petiole 6–16 mm long; lamina elliptic to lanceolate, 7–13.5 cm long, 3–6.2 cm wide, not foveolate, green and glabrous below. Inflorescence racemose, axillary, not exceeding leaves. Flowers opening widely with outer tepals almost horizontal, cream, perfumed. Tepals papillose abaxially, usually glabrous adaxially: outer 2.4–3.9 mm long, 1.9–2.7 mm wide; inner 2.3–4.1 mm long, 1.9–2.7 mm wide. Anthers 0.9–1.8 mm long, 0.7–1.3 mm wide, papillose; filaments absent or 0.2–0.6 mm long and pubescent; valves usually opening sideways and outwards; glands 2 per anther. Staminodes absent. Ovary 0.7–1.1 mm long, 0.6–1 mm wide, glabrous; style glabrous. Fruit globular, pyriform, ellipsoidal, 30–52 mm long, 20–41 mm wide, yellow, orange, maroon. Cotyledons cream.
Well-developed rain forests, in soils derived from a variety of rock types; at elevations from sea level to 1,300 metres.
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Grows in rainforest in soils derived from a variety of rock types; from sea level to 1300 m alt.
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