Sparsely branched tree, 15 m. Leaves glabrous, simple, subcoriaceous; stipules small forming a bicuspid ligule; petioles long (to 19 cm), swollen distally; blade oblong-elliptic, 22-36 by 9-12 cm, subrounded at base and apex or mucronulate, midrib prominent below, secondary veins arched-ascending and uniting, c. 1-2 cm apart, margin entire to undulate. Umbel terminal, sessile, with many (28-32) radiating rigid, angular, trifid branches c. 7 cm long to first joint. Central branches unknown. Lateral branches c. 5 cm long, articulate near the base. Flowers 20-30, sessile on the expanded ends of the inflorescence branches. Corolla and stamens unknown. Drupes crowded, subrotund, c. 4 mm ø (dry), c. 8-10 ribbed when dry, crowned by a semiglobose entire stigma, 8-10-celled. Seeds with slightly ruminate endosperm.
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