Tree 10 m tall; most parts glabrous. Leaves: petiole 5-7 mm long; lamina narrowly elliptic to oblanceolate, 7.5-13.5 cm long, 2-4 cm wide, glabrous; tips acuminate; margin entire or irregularly dentate (especially in juvenile leaves); venation dense, prominent on both surfaces; lateral veins 7 or 8 pairs. Conflorescence axillary or ramiflorous, 6.5-12 cm long, densely flowered, ferruginous-pilose; pedicels c. 5 mm long. Tepals c. 18 mm long, cream, glabrous; limb 4.5-6 mm long, c. 1.5 mm wide. Anthers 4-5.5 mm long. Hypogynous glands obtuse, 4-lobed, fused at base. Ovary rufous-tomentose. Fruit (immature) ovoid, c. 14 mm long, c. 10 mm diam., becoming blue to purple.
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