Usually small trees up to 15(-26) m, sometimes with low buttresses, bark grey to brown. Twigs soon glabrous. Leaves oblong to ovate, 7-17 by 2-8.5 cm, base rounded to more acute, apex acuminate, herbaceous to papyraceous, with 7-11 pairs of nerves, venation inconspicuous, both sides glabrous (maybe some hairs when young), basal glands 2, flat. Petiole up to 1 cm long. Stipules narrowly triangular to linear, 4-5.5 by 0.5-1.5 mm, free, hairy outside. Racemes solitary, in axils of extant or fallen leaves, (0.5-) 1.5-3 cm long, peduncle very short, rachis (sparsely) hairy, pedicels 0-1 mm long. Flowers often (?) unisexual, 4-oi 5-merous. Hypanthium 1.5-2.5 mm high, hairy outside, once noted as orange by the collector. Perianth segments differentiated as sepals and petals, but the two almost equal in size. Sepals triangular to elliptic, c. 1 mm long, densely hairy outside. Petals elliptic, c. 1 mm long, greenish or white, hairy. Stamens 15-25, glabrous, filaments up to 3.5 mm, anthers 0.3-0.5 mm long. Ovary and pistillodium glabrous. Fruits transversely ellipsoid to didymous, 9-13 by 10-19 mm, exocarp glabrous, red to black when ripe, mesocarp juicy, endocarp glabrous inside. Seed with glabrous testa.
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