Trees to 5 m tall, all parts glabrous. Branches brown when young, striate with age. Petiole 0.4-2 cm, swollen; leaf blade narrowly oblong-lanceolate, 10-39 × 2.5-8 cm, leathery, midvein adaxially depressed, secondary veins 14-20 on each side of midvein and inconspicuous, base cuneate, apex acuminate to acute. Inflorescences axillary, 1-flowered. Pedicel 5-10 mm, bracteolate at base. Sepals broadly ovate, ca. 1.5 × 1 cm. Petals green turning brownish yellow, leathery; outer petals oblong-lanceolate, 5-6 × 1-1.5 cm; inner petals elliptic, ca. 1.5 × 1 cm. Stamens linear but obconic when dry, ca. 1.8 mm; connectives apically flat to very slightly convex, puberulent. Carpels cylindric, pubescent; ovules 2 per carpel; styles slender; stigmas entire. Monocarps to 20, ovoid, 1-1.7 × 0.5-0.8 cm. Seeds 1 or 2 per monocarp, pale reddish brown, ovoid, slightly compressed. Fl. May-Nov, fr. Nov-Feb.
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