Tree up to 30 m high and 80 cm Ø. Buttresses occasionally present, 2 m high, ½ mm wide. Bark yellowish to dark brown, rough, deeply fissured. Leaves subcoriaceous, elliptic-oblong to narrowly elliptic, rarely oblanceolate or lanceolate, (4½-) 16-35 by (2-)4-9 cm; base cuneate; apex acute or obtuse; nerves 14-23 pairs, distinct beneath, faint above; veins obscure, or reticulate and faint on both surfaces; petiole (l-)1½-3½(-5) cm, convex beneath, concave above. Panicles terminal and sometimes also in the apical leaf axils, crowded at the apex of twigs, pyramidal, up to 20 cm long, glabrous; lateral branches up to 10½ cm long; floral bracts triangular or ovate, c. 1 mm long; pedicels ⅓ mm. Flowers white. Calyx 4-lobed, lobes ovate or elliptic, 2-2½ mm long., glabrous. Petals elliptic, rarely ovate, 3-4½ by 1½-2½ mm; ridges (3-)5(-7), c. ⅔ the length of petals, confluent at the basal ⅔-l mm. Disk short-cupular, 1½ mm high, 2½ mm wide, 4-lobed, papillose. Stamens 4, 1 (rarely 2) fertile; filaments free; anthers oblong, ⅔ mm long; staminodes up to 1 mm. Ovary sub-globose, c. 2 mm Ø; style lateral, 2 mm. Sterile pistil in ♂ ½ mm. Drupe (dried) yellowish when ripe, globose or subglobose, 3½-4½45 cm ø (hard, not edible, KOSTERMANS in sched.). Seed not labyrinthine.
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An evergreen tree. It grows 30 m tall. The trunk can be 90-120 cm across. It can have buttresses. Fruit are 5-6 cm long. There is one large seed.
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