A shrub or small tree to 10 m high, glabrous. Leaves oblong-elliptic, (10-)15-36 by (4.5-)7-12.5 cm, chartaceous or subcoriaceous, base broadly cuneate to rounded, apex obtuse to subacute or with a short obtuse apiculum, entire, principal veins evident on lower surface, arched and meeting inside the mar-gin, glabrous; petiole 15-22 mm, deeply channelled above. Monoecious. Inflorescence axillary, gla-brous, with a short peduncle (3-5 mm long) and sev-eral short branches bearing slender pedicels (3-4 cm) crowded near their apices, the upper pedicels thicker and bearing female flowers or all the flowers male. Male receptacle obovoid, c. 2 mm long, with bracteoles; tepals 4, minute; stamens 6 (2 inner smaller) or 4. Female receptacle subglobose, c. 4 mm long, with bracteoles and 4 rounded outer tepals, enclosing irregularly swollen glands; c. 10 carpels, stigma short. In fruit the pedicel becoming stout and woody, the receptacle with several short, very stout stipes. Drupes ovoid, 18 by 10 mm.
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