Shrub or small tree to 10 m; young branches be-coming glabrous. Leaves oblong-ovate, (13-) 15-20 (-25) by 6—9.5(—12) cm, apiculate with an obtuse or acute apex, chartaceous, glabrous when mature (rarely a few hairs retained at the base of the blade); margin with small dentations on the upper part or en-tire; lateral veins arched, obscure above, veins of a lower order obscure; petiole 15-20 mm, glabrous (rarely with some persistent hairs). Inflorescences axillary, solitary or few in the same axil. Male rachis strigose, to 20 mm, with minute scales at the base, bearing a terminal flower, side branches 1-2 or absent, c. 10 mm long, subtended by minute strigose bracts; receptacle c. 5 mm ø (when dry), slightly strigose; tepals 4, minute; stamens 4, free; filaments broad, short; anthers broadly triangular. Female inflorescence similar, but apparently only the terminal flower develops to fruit (lateral branches frequently bear male flowers); rachis becoming stout and dilated distally, elongating to c. 35 mm; receptacle turbinate, c. 10 mm ø at anthesis, slightly larger in fruit; carpels very numerous; ovary densely strigose; stigma prominent. Hairs persist on the young fruit, but the numerous ripe drupes are glabrous, shining black, wrinkled, c. 20 by 15 mm (dry), long-stipitate (c. 18 mm long).
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