Shrub up to 6 m, or tree up to 21 m by 65 cm (fide bb 21394, Bo). Leaves chartaceous to subcoriaceous, pubescent, especially on the nerves and veins beneath, glabrescent or glabrous, dull and yellowish-brown beneath, shining and reddish-brown above, elliptic-oblong, ovate-oblong, or obovate-oblong, 5-14 by 1.5-5 cm; base cuneate; apex up to 2 cm narrow-acuminate; nerves and veins similar, numerous, slightly oblique and parallel; petiole short, 3-5 mm. Inflorescences sessile, usually terminal, consisting of 6 to 8 flowers, rarely axillary, or on the branchlets; pedicels 1-3 mm. Flowers white, yellowish, light greenish, or yellowish-green. Floral tube cupular, c. 3.5 mm long. Calyx lobes oblong, c. 1 mm long. Petaloid appendages deltoid, about half as long as the anther, densely hairy. Stamens sessile, c. 0.75 mm. Disk scale-like. Pistil c. 2.5 mm long, densely puberulous, except the stigma. Ovary ovoid, c. 1 mm long, narrowed towards the apex; style absent; stigma ovoid. Fruits yellow, slightly obovoid or ellipsoid, 2.5 by 1 cm, shortly acuminate to the apex, attenuate to the base. Seeds ovoid, planoconvex, 9 by 6 mm, with a caruncle-like appendage at the base, c. 2 mm thick.
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