Tree 10 m tall; branchlets subterete, glabrous, drying tan. Leaves alternate, 5-13 cm long, 2-4.7 cm wide, oblong-elliptic to obovate-elliptic, acute to acu-minate, cuneate at the base, chartaceous to coriaceous, entire, drying dark brown above, brown beneath, the lateral veins 6-10 on a side, not clearly differentiated from tertiary venation, the tertiary venation intricately prominulous below, more or less plane above, densely minutely lepidote-punctate above, glabrous, the petiole slender, 1-2 cm long, glabrous. Inflorescence a narrow open axillary panicle, ca. 8-12 cm long, appressed puberulous, the flowers fewer than 14, on 1.5-3 mm long pedicels. Flowers very large for the family, 5 mm long in bud; sepals 5, orbicular, 2 mm in diam., ciliate-fringed, otherwise glabrous, subtended by several progressively smaller bracteoles resembling additional sepals; outer petals white, turning pale orange, suborbicular, 5-6 mm long and wide, the mar-gins not noticeably thinfier, not at all or sparsely ciliate; stamens 2, exceeded by the attached basal appendages, the thecae thick, suborbicular, 1 mm long; ovary narrowly conical, glabrous, 1 mm long, apically merging with the 2.5-3 mm long style. Fruit obovoid-pyriform, 2-2.5 cm long, 1.6-1.9 cm wide.
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