Tree up to 32 m high and 53(-l00) cm ø. Bark light brownish, smooth. Leaves coriaceous, ellipticoblong, lanceolate, or obovate-oblong, 7—21 by 2¾—9 cm; base cuneate or attenuate; apex acute to shortly acuminate, rarely acuminate; nerves 14—20 pairs, distinct; veins reticulate, distinct beneath, obscure above; petiole l-4½(-8½) cm, convex beneath, concave or flat above. Panicles terminal, pyramidal, 8—28 cm long, puberulous, sometimes glabrescent; lateral branches up to 10 cm, laxly flowered; floral bracts ovate-oblong, 4 mm long; pedicels ½-l mm. Flowers greenish white, sweetly fragrant. Calyx 4-lobed, lobes triangular or ovate, 1½—2½ mm long, puberulous and glabrescent outside. Petals 4, ovate, broadly elliptic, or elliptic, 3¼-4 by 1½-2 mm; ridges 3(—5), half the length of petals, merged, apical parts free from the surface and parallel to it. Disk short-cupular, c. ¾ mm high, 1½ mm wide, 4-lobed, papillose. Stamens 4, 1 fertile, 2—5 mm; filaments free; anthers ovoid, ⅔ mm long; staminodes c. ½ mm. Ovary subglobose, ¾ mm ø; style lateral, 1½ mm. Sterile pistil in ♂ c. ⅓ mm. Drupe (fresh) (KOSTERMANS, l.c.) globose, smooth, yellowish green, c. 10 cm ø, flesh pale yellowish, sweet acid. Seed not labyrinthine.
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A tree. It grows up to 32 m tall. The trunk can be 50-100 cm across. The leaves are oblong and 7-21 cm long by 3-9 cm wide. They are rough. The veins are distinct underneath. The leaf stalk is 1-4 cm long. The flowering stalks are 8-28 cm long. The flowers are greenish-white. The have a sweet scent. The fruit is smooth and round. It is 10 cm across. The skin is yellowish-green. The flesh is yellow. The seeds are 4 cm thick.
Lowland forest up to 150 m, once at 1500 m (a doubtful specimen from the Gajolands). Fl.--08.; fr. April, July, Sept., Dec.
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A tropical plant. They grow in the humid tropics. It grows up to 150 m altitude.
Evergreen tropical forest, growing in well drained soils at low elevations.
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