Tree up to 12 m. Branchlets terete, sometimes subterete. Leaves coriaceous, ovate-oblong, rarely oblong-lanceolate, 9-16 by 4-6 cm; base obtuse or ± rounded; apex obtuse, or obscurely short-acuminate; nerves 6-7 pairs, obliquely ascending; veins reticulate, prominent on both surfaces; petiole 7-10 mm. Panicles solitary, up to 18 cm long, divaricate, lax, branched almost from the base. Peduncle very short. Pedicels 5-6 mm. Flowers yellowish white, fragrant, c. 1 cm ø. Calyx lobes semi-orbicular, or ± reniform, 1 by 2.5 mm, ± entire. Petals ovate or broadly ovate, sometimes even suborbicular, 4-4.5 by 3-4 mm, wavy on the margin, appendage very small, inserted at the middle or lower half, triangular with a very broad base. Disk fleshy, ± rounded to obscurely 5-angular, the obscure angles episepalous or epi-petalous, c. 4.5 mm ø, smooth. Filaments inserted rb between pistil and edge of disk, c. 2.25 mm; anthers broad-ovoid, 1.25 by 4/5 mm, acute or short-acuminate. Pistil emerging c. 2 mm above the disk. Ovary slightly 3-angular, narrowed into a cylindric style. Ovules 8 in each cell.
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