Tree 10-40 m tall, ±buttressed. Adult leaves in whorls of (4-) 5 (-6); petiole 3-14 mm long; lamina narrowly elliptic, sometimes obovate, 8-23 cm long, 2-6 cm wide, acute, never mucronate; base cuneate or attenuate, dull above, paler below, somewhat chartaceous, glabrescent; margin entire, weakly undulate; midrib prominent above and below. Conflorescence of 1-2 whorls, on stalks 2.5-6 cm long, 2-3 mm diam.; each whorl with 4-6 racemes, 8-9 cm long, c. 1 mm diam.; bract somewhat persistent, ovate, 0.5-1.5 mm long. Tepals 3.5-4 mm long, c. 1.2 mm wide, reflexed, almost circinate, yellow-cream. Filaments 2-5.5 mm long, adnate to tepals for 0.5-2.5 mm, c. 0.25 mm wide. Anthers 0.5-1 mm long. Ovary glabrous, 0.3-0.8 mm long; style 2.5-6 mm long. Fruit 1 per raceme, globose, c. 5 cm long, c. 7 cm wide; pericarp 8-10 mm thick. Seeds depressed-globose, c. 3.5 cm long, c. 2 cm wide; testa thin, 1-2 mm thick.
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