Shrub or treelet, 8-10 m high, rarely tree, up to 30 m by 45 cm ø, with buttresses; branches glabrous. Leaves broad-elliptic (sometimes nearly orbicular) to obovate, 12.5-30 by 8-22 cm, thin-coriaceous, glabrous; base cuneate to cordate, decurrent; margin slightly undulate; apex rounded; midrib forked just below the apex, nerves 6-8 pairs; petiole 1-4 cm. Inflorescences 5-11 cm long, widely branched, few-to many-flowered, glabrous. Calyx 3-4 mm high, outside glabrous, inside at the base with or without colleters. Corolla 2 (when fresh 2.4) cm long, slender, glabrous apart from the hair-ring in the mouth which is inserted on a thickened, lobed rim; lobes 0.5 cm long, very thick-fleshy. Stamens inserted c. 4-7 mm below the mouth; anthers linear, 3.5 mm, cells free for 0.25-0.2, faintly corniculate at apex and with an acute membranous base, glabrous. Style slender, c. 1.25 cm, stigma ellipsoid, 0.5-0.75 mm. Fruits ovoid, more or less flattened, slightly curved, tapering towards the acute apex, 4.5-7 by 2-2.75 (when fresh-4) by 1¼-1¾ cm, orange.
Home