Tree 10-30 m tall, sometimes buttressed. Adult leaves in whorls of (4-) 5; petiole 6-30 mm long; lamina ovate to elliptic, 6-21.5 cm long, 2-6.5 cm wide, glossy above and slightly glossy below, coriaceous, glabrescent; base cuneate; margin entire; apices acute to shortly acuminate; tip rounded; sparse ferruginous hairs on midrib. Conflorescence of 1 or 2 whorls on stalks 6-8.5 cm long; each whorl with 4-5 racemes; rachis 4.5-7 cm long, c. 1 mm diam.; bract ovate, concave, 0.7-1.5 mm long. Tepals free, 2-3.2 mm long, highly circinate, cream. Filaments 0.5-2 mm long, adnate to tepals for 0.2-0.8 mm. Anthers 0.5-2 mm long. Ovary 0.25-0.7 mm long; style 1.2-1.8 mm long. Fruit c. 41 mm long, c. 44 mm wide; pericarp c. 2-3 mm thick. Seeds globose to broadly ovoid, c. 31 mm long, c. 34 mm wide; testa 4-6 mm thick.
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