Tree, 12-30 m high, e. 30 cm dbh. Leaves: petiole 3-6 cm; blade coriaceous, elliptic to oblong, 6-13.5 by 3.5-6 cm, apex broadly rounded (seldom truncate) or obtuse, or acute, base acute or rounded, margin revolute, glabrous on both surfaces but lower surface of young leaves hairy, basal nerves 3, palmate, and midrib with 2 pairs of arching lateral ones, whitish or yellow; domatia present. Inflorescence including the 6-13 cm long peduncle 10-20 cm long; involucre bracts elliptic to obovate, 10-11 by 5-8 mm; flower buds globose-ovoid, 3-5 mm in diam. Flowers 4-or 5-merous, white, sweetly fragrant. Male flowers: pedicel c. 4 mm long, tepals c. 6 mm long, stamens 5, filaments c. 1.5 mm long, laxly pilose, each at base with two stiped glands, c. 1 mm long, stipe 0.5 mm long. Female flowers: pedicel c. 1 mm long, flower (including ovary) 7.5-8.5 mm long, ovary entirely enveloped by the cupule, tepals c. 5.5 mm long, style c. 2 mm long, surrounding glands 5 (sometimes more glands, but then smaller), firm, c. 1 mm long; cupule in anthesis 2-3 by 4 mm, faintly ribbed, in fruit inflated, loosely enclosing the drupe, green turning red, 2.7-3 cm long, the orifice 1.5-2.5 cm diam., margin irregularly undulate. Drupe shorter than the cupule, ovoid, laterally compressed, c. 2 by 1.5 cm, faintly 10-ribbed, the apex with a half-rounded umbo, which is contracted at the beak.
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A tree. The leaves are alternate and in a bunch near the ends of the branches. The fruit is a dark round seed in a loose, open-ended chamber
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