Tree up to 30 m high and 65 cm ø, occasionally with stilt-roots. Buttresses up to 2 m high. Branchlets light brown, scurfy. Leaves coriaceous, elliptic or oblanceolate, 6-15(-20) by 2½-4½(-10½) cm, glabrous, shining above, dull beneath; papillae very compact, obscure on the lower surface; base cuneate, rarely slightly obtuse; apex acuminate, acute, rarely obtuse; nerves 6-14 pairs, veins reticulate, some transverse and slightly parallel; petiole (½-)1½-2(-4½)cm, the lower ½-⅔ (often slightly thickened and) puberulous; bracts triangular, 7-8 mm long, floral bracts ovate, 3-5 mm long; pedicels ⅓-2 mm. Flowers 7-9 mm long. Hypanthium 2 mm long. Calyx lobes triangular, 2½-3 mm long. Petals lanceolate, 4-6 by 1¼-l¾ mm, flat. Stamens 3-4 mm; filaments free, reddish brown; anthers c. ⅔ mm long. Imperfect or abortive stamens in ♀ 2½ mm. Disk obscurely 5-notched. Ovary flat and round, 2½ mm Ø; style 3 mm; stigmas capitellate. Abortive pistil 0 in ♂, replaced by a tuft of hairs. Drupe subglobose, 2-2½ by 1½-2 cm, pubescent, glabrescent; apex rounded.
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