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Leaf-lamina 12–26 x 5–12 cm., coriaceous, elliptic-oblong, bluntly acuminate or rounded at the apex, broadly cuneate or rounded at the base, margin repand or crenate; nerves in 9–13 pairs, prominent below; venation laxly reticulate, slightly prominent on both sides; petiole up to 1.2 cm. long; stipules c. 1 cm. long, foliaceous, subreniform to linear, caducous.
Ovary a depressed cone deeply sunk in the receptacle, fairly long-pilose inside, shortly pilose outside; ovules 6–9; style 0.75 mm. long, columnar, pilose, stigmatic arms spreading, 0.4 mm. long.
Flowers in dense clusters along the branches of a terminal panicle c. 25 x 15 cm.; inflorescence branches sparsely and shortly pilose; pedicels very short, puberulous, articulate near the apex.
Fruit (seen only in West African specimens) with the petals somewhat accrescent, the whole with a diameter of c. 7 mm.; capsule not much larger than the unripe ovary.
Petals 5, c. 2 x 1.3 mm., broadly spathulate or oblong-obovate, rounded or apiculate at the apex, densely pubescent on both sides.
Stamens 5; filaments 1 mm. long, glabrous, arching inwards; anthers 0.4 mm. in diam., sub-globose.
Seed usually single, c. 1.7 mm. in diam., with a thin brown testa, biconical.
Sepals 5, c. 1.2 mm. long, narrowly triangular, acute, densely puberulous.
Shrub or small tree, the vegetative parts quite glabrous.
Disk glands 0.5 mm. in diam., discoid, tomentellous.
Forest tree in swamps and creeks, to 70 ft. high
A tree. It grows 10 m tall.
Flowers yellowish-green.
