Tree to 40 m high. Stem sometimes buttressed. Twigs ± terete, soon glabrescent. Leaves: petiole 8–31 mm long; lamina lanceolate, 6.5–13.5 cm long, 2–5 cm wide, slightly glaucous and pubescent when young, soon glabrescent and often becoming green. Inflorescence bracts ± hemispherical, present at anthesis. Flowers 4 or 5 per umbel, cream to pale brown, perfumed. Male flowers: tepals 4, 2.4–3.9 mm long, 1.3–2.6 mm wide; stamens usually 6, glabrous; outer staminal whorl eglandular; inner staminal whorl glandular, with 1 or 2 glands; pistillode absent. Female flowers: tepals 4, 2.5–3 mm long, 1.4–2.2 mm wide; staminodes 6–8, ± differentiated, glabrous; outer whorl of staminodes eglandular, inner whorl of staminodes glandular; ovary 1.2–1.5 mm long, 0.9–1 mm wide, glabrous; style glabrous. Fruit globular to ellipsoidal, 12–20 mm long, 11–14 mm wide, black; receptacle 9–14 mm long, 6–8 mm wide. Cotyledons cream.
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