Tree to 35 m high. Stem sometimes buttressed. Twigs terete, with straight, appressed hairs, eventually almost glabrescent. Leaves: lamina elliptic to obovate, 5–13 cm long, 2–6 cm wide; underside green, with straight, appressed hairs, soon glabrescent; primary veins 8–12 pairs. Inflorescence a raceme of umbels; umbel peduncle 2–11 mm long. Flowers 4–6 per umbel, cream, green, rarely brownish, (glands pink, reddish) perfumed. Male flowers: pedicel + perianth tube 1.5–2.4 mm long; tepals 4–6, 2.5–5 mm long, 1.1–1.8 mm wide; stamens 6–9; anthers 1.1–1.7 mm long, 0.7–1.1 mm wide; filaments 1.5–4.5 mm long; outer filaments usually eglandular; inner filaments with 1 or 2 glands; pistillode sometimes present. Female flowers: pedicel + perianth tube 1.2–2.2 mm long; tepals 4–6, 1.5–3.3 mm long, 0.7–0.9 mm wide; staminodes 6–9, usually 3 with glands and 3–6 without; ovary 0.9–1.3 mm long, 0.9–1 mm wide, glabrous; style glabrous. Fruit ellipsoidal, 13–14 mm long, 10–12 mm wide, black; receptacle 8.5–14 mm long, c. 10 mm wide. Cotyledons white, cream.
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