Glabrous tree, 2-5(-12) m, normally unarmed but occasionally with simple spines 2lh-3cm, buttressed when old. Leaves oblong, large, shortly attenuate at the apex, rounded or subtruncate at the base, coriaceous, shining on both sides (young ones purplish alive), (10-)16-32 by (5-)6-12 cm, distantly glandular-subserrate-crenate (1 mm deep) with 2 or 4 basal glands near the apex of the petiole; nerves curved-ascending, (7-)8-10(-12, rarely 14) pairs, prominent beneath, veins numerous, +-transversal and little prominent; petiole stout, rugose, ½-1 cm. Flowers (3-)4-8 in compact, axillary, fascicle-like racemes, sordid-white, inside red; peduncle very short, woody, with minute bracts at the base. Pedicels 2-5 mm. ♂ Flowers: perianth segments (4-)6, ovate to nearly orbicular, ciliate, further glabrous, concave, many-nerved, the outer ones firm, the inner ones somewhat smaller and thinner, (3-)4-5 by 3.5-5 mm. Disk fleshy, consisting of many short, red lobes coherent at the base. Filaments filiform, glabrous; appendage-like connective glabrous. Rudiment of ovary minute, glabrous. ♀ Flowers: perianth segments and disk similar to those in the male flowers, the first a little smaller. Staminodes glabrous. Ovary ovoid, glabrous, attenuate at the apex into a 3-4 mm long style. Berry green, ovoid or ob-pyriform, rather abruptly attenuate at the apex, somewhat 3-5-sulcate, crowned by the persistent style and stigma, glabrous, 2-2.5 by 1.5 cm. Seeds 10-15(-20), oblong, irregularly angular, shining, 6-8 mm.
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A medium sized tree. It grows 10-12 m tall. It can have simple spines 2-3 cm long. The leaves are large and oblong. Young leaves are purplish. Flowers are in groups of 4-8 in the axils of leaves. The fruit is an oval berry. It is 2 cm high. It contains 20 seeds which are angular and 6-8 mm long.
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