Tree up to 30 m high and 60 cm ø. Buttresses occasionally present, up to ½ m high, 1 m wide, 15 cm thick. Bark dark brown, smooth. Leaves (pseudo-whorled) coriaceous, oblanceolate, obovate-oblong, elliptic-lanceolate, or narrowly elliptic, 13-23 by 3-8 cm, glabrous; base cuneate to decurrent; apex acuminate, sometimes acute; nerves 9-15 pairs, distinct on both surfaces; veins reticulate, often faint on both surfaces; petiole often very short, ¼-¾ cm, sometimes some leaves with petiole up to 1½ cm. Panicles 7-15 cm long, puberulous; pedicels 3-6 mm, not articulated. Flower-buds ellipsoid, 4-5½ by 1½-2 mm, obtuse. Calyx 4-5½ mm long, bursting irregularly, puberulous outside. Petals whitish or pale yellow, imbricate, oblanceolate, 5-7½ by 1-1¼ mm, puberulous outside, densely papillose usually at the lower half inside; the basal c. 1 mm longitudinally adnate to the torus. Stamens 5(-7), 5-6 mm; filaments glabrous; anthers oblong, 1-1¼ mm. Torus cylindric, 1-1¼ mm long. Ovary obovoid, l-1½ mm long, puberulous; stipe obscure; style lateral, 3-4 mm. Drupe on an obscure, excentric stalk, obliquely broadly ellipsoid, 7½-9 by 5-6½ by 3½-5 cm, brownish, scurfy; embryo subreniform, 3-4½ by 5 cm; cotyledons incompletely fused, free on one side, free part c. 1 cm deep.
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