Tree to 10 m high. Stem sometimes buttressed. Twigs fluted, eventually almost glabrescent. Leaves: petiole 4–17 mm long; lamina lanceolate to narrowly lanceolate, 6–14 cm long, 1.5–4.5 cm wide, penniveined, not foveolate, green and glabrous below. Inflorescence axillary, not exceeding leaves. Flowers scarcely opening with tepals remaining erect, colour and perfume unknown. Tepals sparsely pubescent: outer 0.6–1 mm long, 1–1.4 mm wide; inner 0.8–0.9 mm long, 0.8–0.9 mm wide. Anthers 0.7–0.8 mm long, c. 0.6 mm wide, glabrous; filaments 0.7–0.8 mm long, pubescent; valves opening outwards or sideways; glands absent. Staminodes 3, undifferentiated. Ovary 0.6–0.7 mm long, 0.5–0.6 mm wide, glabrous; style glabrous. Fruit globular, depressed globular, 35–60 mm long, 45-60 mm wide, yellow, orange-red. Cotyledons creamy apricot.
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