Trees to 60 m tall; trunk buttressed to 2.5 m high; young branches sparsely puberulous, glabrescent, lenticellate. Stipules linear, acute to 5 mm, hirsute, early caducous, present on very young leaves only. Leaves chartaceous, ovate, 5-9 by 2-4.3 cm, glabrous on both surfaces when mature, without stomatal crypts beneath, acuminate at apex, the tip 5-12 mm long, rounded to subcordate at base; midrib lightly impressed above, prominent beneath, sparsely pubescent when young; primary veins 7-11 pairs, plane to prominulous above, prominent beneath, arcuate; petioles 3-7 mm, glabrous when mature, eglandular or with small rather inconspicuous central glands. Inflorescences dense-flowered axillary panicles to 4.5 cm long, the rachis and branches tomentose; bracts and bracteoles persistent, ovate, puberulous on exterior, caducous. Receptacle cam-panulate, 3 mm long, tomentose on exterior; pedicels 1-2 mm long; calyx lobes elliptic, concave, c. 2 mm, acute, sparsely puberulous on exterior, densely to-mentellous on interior. Petals elliptic, obtuse, 2 mm, tapered to base. Fertile stamens 7-8. Fruit ellipsoid, 3.5-5 by 1.5-2.5 cm; epicarp densely to sparsely lenticellate; mesocarp fleshy, 1 mm thick; endocarp 5 mm thick, hard, marbled, densely lanate within.
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A tree. It can grow 60 m tall. The trunk has buttresses. These can be 2.5 m tall. The bark is smooth with irregular cracks. The leaves are oval and papery. They are 5-9 cm long by 2-4 cm wide. They are smooth and rounded at the base. They taper to the tip. The flowers are in dense groups 4.5 cm long. The fruit are narrowly oval and 4-5 cm long by 2-3 cm wide. There is a fleshy layer about 1 mm thick.
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