Shrub or small tree to 10 m high. Leaves: petiole 3–5 (–7) mm long; lamina elliptic or broadly ovate, 3.5–12 cm long, 1.5–5 cm wide, acute or sometimes obtuse at base, obtuse or acute with a blunt tip at apex, glabrous; secondary veins 10–14 pairs. Flowers solitary, rarely a pair, axillary. Pedicel 10–13 mm long, appressed-pubescent; ?bracts basal, ovate, 1.5–2 mm long. Sepals depressed-ovate to hemispherical, sometimes recurved, 2.5–3 mm long, 4–5 mm wide, appressed-puberulous. Petals ovate, pale yellow to creamy yellow. Outer petals sometimes recurved, 12–13 mm long, 8.5–9 mm wide, acute, puberulous. Inner petals 9–13 mm long, 6.5–8.5 mm wide, thickened, puberulous, slightly ridged inside near base. Stamens 85–100, ?c. 1.5 mm long. Carpels 4–20; ovary 1.8–2 mm long; ovules 4 or 5 [ovaries 8–10 per flower, each clothed in appressed golden hairs; ovules c. 4 per ovary, fide Zich et al., 2020]. Apocarps ellipsoidal or obloid, 2–3.5 (–4) cm long, 1–1.4 cm wide, orange, smooth, puberulous; stipe c. 2 mm long. Seeds 1–5.
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