Tree, 5-20(-28) m, up to 40 cm Ø. Branchlets slightly winged below the insertion of the petioles, tips puberulous. Leaves elliptic or oblong-, rarely ovate-elliptic, apex shortly subabruptly and acutely acuminate, base cuneate, the very base folded and decurrent to the grooved petiole, subcoriaceous to firmly chartaceous, dark olive-brownish and the edge slightly revolute in dry specimens, glabrous, 12-20 by 4-8 cm, nerves 5-6(-7) pairs rather straight-ascending, much paler than the lamina in dry specimens beneath, transverse veins distinct beneath; petiole 7-12 by 1.5-2 mm. Inflorescences all over short-pubescent, on top of a slender peduncle (1-2 cm), consisting of several short cymes crowded into a kind of head or umbel, which bear up to 15 flowers in the ♂, up to 7 flowers in the ♀ ones. ♂ Flower: Calyx cupular, ciliate, 1 mm. Petals 5, coherent to a narrow tube, whitish, laxly hairy distally only, c. 4 mm. Stamens 5, much exserted; filaments long-hairy in the upper half below the anther cells on the ventral side only. Rudiment of ovary short-hairy. ♀ Flower: Calyx and petals as in ♂ flowers. Staminodes 5, hairy. Ovary short-hairy except the glabrous base. Drupe ellipsoid-oblongoid, apex shortly attenuate, slightly or not curved, the very base swollen and smooth, whilst the endocarp shows numerous outstanding ridges above, (1.8-)2-2.4 by (0.6-) 0.7-0.8 cm; exocarp pale pink or greenish-white.
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