Tree up to 33 m high and 72 cm ø. Buttresses up to 1¼ m high, ½ m wide, 7½ cm thick. Bark grey, reddish or dark brown, rather smooth. Leaves coriaceous, obovate, or elliptic, l-12ll2 by 3½-6 cm, glabrous, sometimes puberulous beneath especially on the midrib and nerves; base cuneate; apex obtuse, or emarginate, rarely acute; nerves 9-18 pairs, distinct on both surfaces; veins reticulate, some transverse, distinct beneath, rather faint above; petiole ll2-21l2cm. Panicles 9-15 cm long, puberulous; pedicels 2¾-8 mm, articulated. Flower-buds ovoid-oblong, 8-12 by 5-7 mm, shortly acuminate. Calyx pinkish-purple, 8-12 mm long, circumscissile, puberulous outside. Petals white, changing to dark pink, contorted, narrowly elliptic, 12-14 by 3-4 mm, puberulous outside, glabrous inside. Stamens c. 70, 5-10 mm; filaments sparsely hairy. Torus subglobose, c. 1½ mm ø. Ovary subglobose, c. 1 mm ø, glabrous; stipe (2-)3-5 mm; style terminal, 3-5 mm. Drupe (bright purplish-red when fresh) on a centric stalk (1-1¼ cm), subglobose, c. ½ cm ø, smooth; wing-like, enlarged petals (bright pinkish or red) narrowly oblanceolate or elliptic-oblong, 5-6 by 1¼-l¾ (-2½) cm; embryo subglobose, 1¼ cm Ø; cotyledons free.
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