Tree to 25 m high. Shoots appressed-pubescent with straight hairs; branchlets with minute curled hairs. Leaves: petiole 4–8 mm long; lamina lanceolate, oblanceolate or narrowly ovate, 4.5–25 cm long, 2–11 cm wide, obtuse, rounded or shallowly cordate at base, acuminate at apex, glabrous above, glabrous below except on main veins; secondary veins 5–12 pairs. Flowers in axillary or ramal fasciculate cymes. Pedicel 2–4.5 cm long, minutely curled-papillose. Sepals shortly connate at base, crescent-shaped or triangular, 2–2.5 mm long, 3.5–4.2 mm wide, puberulous outside. Inner and outer petals similar, pale yellow or yellowish green, linear, strap-shaped, recurved or flat, 25–30 (–50) mm long, 3.5–5.5 mm wide, puberulous. Stamens c. 40–45, 1.2 mm long. Carpels 16–30; ovary 0.7 mm long, pubescent; style and stigma 1 mm long; stigma puberulous. Apocarps obloid or ellipsoidal, 1.8–2.3 cm long, 1.2–1.4 cm wide, red; stipe 1.1–1.3 cm long. Seed testa smooth, faintly ridged.
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