Small tree up to 16 m high, glabrous. Leaves ob-long to broadly elliptic, 16-20 by 7.5-10 cm, chartaceous, base broadly cuneate to rounded, apex with a short obtuse (or occasionally acute) apiculum, entire, midrib prominent, principal veins arched ascending and meeting near the margin; petiole c. 10 mm. Monoecious. Inflorescences terminal, axillary or supra-axillary, short pleiochasia often densely aggregated together at the nodes, rachis short (up to 30 mm long) with a few pairs of lateral branches which may branch again, pedicels thickened for about 10 mm below the receptacle. Male receptacle subglobose, c. 2 mm ø; tepals 6, rounded; stamens usually 6 (in 3 pairs, the inner small, the outer inserted well above the base of the cavity); anthers small subsessile. Female receptacle similar but larger, c. 4 pairs of tepals with swollen glands within the ostiole; carpels numerous, glabrous with an obtuse stigma. Drupes ± sessile, ovoid, c. 13 by 18 mm, glabrous; fruiting receptacle c. 8 mm ø, woody.
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