Tree to 10 m, shoots glabrous except for the youngest parts. Leaves glabrous, chartaceous, broadly elliptic or elliptic, c. 5 by 2.5 cm, broadly cuneate at the base, rounded apex produced in a short obtuse apiculum; margin with few widely spaced teeth; midrib prominent below; lateral veins rather obscure, arched and meeting within the margin; petiole 5-8 mm. Probably dioecious. Male flowers not seen. Inflorescence of terminal and lateral few-flowered cymes or flowers solitary. Female flowers with a glabrous, coriaceous, globose receptacle, c. 3 mm ø, the ostiole small with obscure tepal-lobes; carpels c. 20, densely packed over the receptacle, ovoid with a short style. Drupes ovoid, c. 8 by 6 mm, sessile on a reflexed sparsely hairy receptacle.
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