Tree to 30 m high. Stem buttressed. Twigs terete or fluted, tomentose, with straight and tortuous, erect hairs. Leaf lamina elliptic to oblong, 11–27.5 cm long, 5–18 cm wide; underside green, inconspicuously tomentose, with short, straight and tortuous, appressed and erect hairs; primary veins 6–11 pairs. Inflorescence a raceme of umbels; umbel peduncle 5–22 mm long. Flowers 4–6 per umbel, greenish cream, yellow or brownish, perfumed. Male flowers: pedicel + perianth tube 1.7–4.1 mm long; tepals 5–7, 1.8–2.8 mm long, 0.8–1.4 mm wide; stamens 8–12; outer anthers 0.7–1.3 mm long, 0.7–1.1 mm wide; outer filaments 1.8–3.4 mm long, sometimes with 1 or 2 glands; inner anthers similar, but filaments always with 2 glands; pistillode sometimes present. Female flowers: pedicel + perianth tube 1.4–2.3 mm long; tepals 5–8, 1.2–2.4 mm long, 0.5–0.9 mm wide; staminodes 9–12; outer staminodes sometimes with 1 or 2 glands; inner staminodes with 2 glands; ovary 1–1.6 mm long, 1–1.5 mm wide, pubescent; style pubescent. Fruit ellipsoidal, 14–15.5 mm long, 11.5–12.5 mm wide, black; receptacle 10–11 mm long, 9–11 mm wide. Cotyledons cream or yellowish.
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