Trees up to 37 m, buttresses absent or small spurs, bark brown to grey-brown, smooth or shal-lowly fissured, flaking. Twigs hairy, glabresent, older twigs usually lenticelled. Leaves elliptic to ovate, rarely oblong, (10-)12-25 by 6-14 cm, base nounded to subcordate, apex rounded or shortly acuminate, herbaceous, with 9-14(-17) pairs of nerves, venation transverse, both sides more or less densely hairy when young and indumentum not quite disappearing with age, basal glands mostly 4, flat to slightly hollowed. Petiole up to 1.5(-2) cm. Stipules triangular to ovate, 3-6.5 by 1,2-2.5 mm, keeled inside and often intra-petioiarly connate in the lower half, hairy outside and on margins. Racemes solitary, in axils of extant or fallen leaves, 5-16 cm long, peduncle very shortt pedicels usually not longer than 1 mm, hairy as is the rachis. Flowers bisexual or male. Hypanthium 2.5-4 mm high, densely hairy outside. Perianth regular, 5-merous. Sepals triangular to Unguifbrm, 1-2 mm long, densely hairy. Petals elliptic to oblong, 1-2 mm long, also hairy, cream-coloured. Stamens 18-40, filaments up to 8 mm, glabrous, anthers up to 1.5 mm long. Ovary glabrous except at very base, style up to 6 mm long, pistillode in male flowers small to minute. Fruits transversely ellipsoid, 8-12 by 11-17 mm, fruiting calyx (basal part of hypanthium) saucer-shaped, 2-3.5 mm diam., exocarp glabrous, black when ripe, mesocarp fleshy, endocarp mostly hairy inside. Seed with hairy testa.
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A tree. It grows 37 m tall. The trunk can be 75 cm across, The leaves are spaced along the branches in spirals. The leaves are 12-25 cm long by 6-14 cm wide. The flowers are in the axils of the leaves on old wood. The flowers are 3-6 mm long. The fruit are 8-12 mm long and red. There is 1 seed 5 mm long.
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