Tree to 30 m high. Stem sometimes buttressed. Twigs fluted, soon glabrescent. Leaves: petiole 8–27 mm long; lamina elliptic, 9.8–18.5 cm long, 3.4–8.5 cm wide, not foveolate, green and glabrous below. Inflorescence axillary or on twigs below leaves, not exceeding leaves. Flowers scarcely opening with tepals erect, yellow, cream, ± perfumed. Tepals glabrous: outer 0.6–1.3 mm long, 1.2–1.7 mm wide; inner 0.9–1.3 mm long, 0.9–1.4 mm wide. Anthers 0.2–0.5 mm long, 0.7–0.9 mm wide, opening by terminal, ± circular pores, glabrous; filaments 1–1.5 mm long, pubescent; glands absent. Staminodes 2 or 3 (sometimes absent), undifferentiated. Ovary 0.6–1 mm long, 0.8–1 mm wide, ovary and style glabrous. Fruit sausage-shaped to ellipsoid, 65–89 mm long, 32–35 mm wide, scurfy brown. Cotyledons cream.
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