Tree to 30 m high. Stem buttressed. Twigs angular or fluted, pubescent. Leaves: petiole 6–18 mm long; lamina lanceolate to elliptic to ± obovate, 8–17 cm long, 5–9.5 cm wide, not foveolate, green or ± glaucous below, pubescent. Inflorescence axillary, not exceeding leaves. Flowers not opening widely with tepals ± erect, yellow, cream-yellow, ± perfumed. Tepals glabrous or few hairs abaxially, pubescent adaxially: outer 1–1.9 mm long, 1.2–1.6 mm wide; inner 1.1–1.6 mm long, 1.2–1.5 mm wide. Anthers 0.8–0.9 mm long, 0.8–1 mm wide, glabrous; filaments 0.2–0.3 mm long, pubescent; valves opening sideways or outwards; glands absent. Staminodes absent. Ovary 0.5–0.6 mm long, 0.4–0.6 mm wide, glabrous or pubescent; style glabrous. Fruit ellipsoidal, occasionally pyriform, globular, 33–54 mm long, 27–41 mm wide, black, blue-black. Cotyledons apricot.
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