Small tree, the young branches lanate, soon glabrous. Stipules lanceolate, 3-6 mm long, puberulous, persistent. Leaves coriaceous, oblong-elliptic, 10-19 by 4-6.5 cm, finely acuminate at apex, the tip 8-16 mm, rounded to subcuneate at base, glabrous on both surfaces; primary veins 9-13 pairs, promin-ulous above, prominent beneath, conspicuously anastomosing 5 mm from margin; petioles 2-4 mm long, shallowly canaliculate, sparsely puberulous when young, soon glabrescent, rugose. Inflorescences of terminal and axillary panicles, 3-10 cm long, the rachis and branches sparsely lanate-puberulous when young. Bracts and bracteoles 0.5-2 mm long, sparsely puberulous-glabrescent on both surfaces. Flowers 1.5-2 mm long. Receptacle campanulate, glabrous externally, tomentose within. Calyx lobes glabrous on both faces except for ciliolate margins. Petals glabrous. Stamens c. 7, unilateral with toothed staminodes opposite. Ovary bilocular, lanate-pilose externally. Style pilose at base, glabrous above, stigma truncate. Fruit sagit-tate-pyriform, unilocular, to 5 cm long, the upper portion triangular, 2-3.5 cm long, the base narrowly and abruptly tapered to a stipe 0.6-1 cm long; epicarp smooth, glabrous; mesocarp thin, fleshy; endocarp thin, hard, bony, lanate-tomentose within.
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