Tree with stout branches, glabrous. Leaves well spaced towards the ends of the branches; petiole 10-13 cm, 2 mm broad, narrowly channelled above, with a small triangular base, bearing a short stipular ligule (c. 2 mm long) and extending around the base of the petiole as a collar; blade obovate, to 27 by 9 cm, base narrowly cuneate, apex rounded or acute and shortly apiculate, margin thickened, remotely dentate towards the apex, midrib prominent, principal lateral veins c. 1.25-1.5 cm apart. Inflorescence a terminal compound umbel, almost sessile, saucer-shaped bracts caducous; primary rays c. 24, 8-11 cm long, flattened, c. 4 mm broad, bearing three branches at the apex; central branch 4-6.5 cm long, the apex expanded and bearing an umbel of c. 10 sterile bacciform flowers c. 6 by 6 mm (when dry) apparently 1-celled, c. 9-14 mm pedicelled; the two lateral branches c. 1 cm long at anthesis with an articulation c. 8-10 mm above the base, bearing helmet-shaped bracts which fall to reveal the terminal head of c. 15-18 flowers, sessile on an expanded receptacle with an involucral rim c. 6 mm ø. Calyx rim 0. Corolla split into c. 4 lobes above, tubular below, c. 2.5 mm long. Stamens 5, exserted. Ovary subcylindric, c. 1.5 mm long, 7-8-celled, disk with a pustulate central stigmatic boss. Drupes in a spherical head c. 2 cm ø (when dry), strongly 7-8-ribbed (when dry), c. 8 mm ø; stigmas persistent, prominent.
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