Branchlets glabrous becoming rather pale and mottled. Leaves with glabrous petioles 3-10 cm, inserted at the basal margin of the lamina (or 1-2 mm from it); lamina ovate, lanceolate-ovate or broadly elliptic, base slightly cordate to obtuse, apex acuminate, 8-25 by 5-13 cm, lateral nerves 5-6 pairs, both surfaces usually densely reticulate and glabrous, stiffly chartaceous to subcoriaceous. Inflorescences fasciculate, borne on protuberances on old wood. Male flowers yellow on slender puberulous pedicels 1-4 cm; outermost sepals minute, scarcely 1 mm long, puberulous, larger inner 2 (or 3) whorls ± broadly elliptic, 2.5-3.5 mm long; petals 6, rotund to cuneate, 1.5 mm long, thick and fleshy; stamens 3 mm long, the outer 6 in a ring with their flattened filaments slightly joined at the base surrounding the 3 inner free stamens, the connective-appendages in-curved. Female flowers unknown but young in fructescences indicate 5-10 carpels, pedicel becom-ing thickened, 2.5-3.5 cm. Drupes red, globose, or subpyriform, up to 10 by 8 cm (BECCARI), glabrous, smooth; endocarp 3-6 cm ø, dorsally bearing 3-5 raised longitudinal ridges which are connected by anastomosing ridges forming a loose network.
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