Trees up to 30 m, buttresses none or short, bark grey to brown, smooth or lenticellate. Twigs hairy when young. Leaves elliptic, 12-22 by 6-13 cm, base truncate to subcordate, apex obtuse to shortly and bluntly acuminate, herbaceous, with 9-15 pairs of nerves, venation indistinct, upper side glabrous, lower side shortly hairy and glabrescent, basal glands usually 2, large, flat or slightly hollowed and bulging above, sometimes glands absent. Petiole up to 1.5 cm long. Stipules pointed ovate, 3-5 (-11) by 2-4 mm, connate over up to 1 mm by their excentric, keeled midribs. Racemes compound, in axils of extant or fallen leaves, 5-10 cm long, with 1-5 laterals up to c. 7 cm, peduncle c. 1 cm, rachis hairy, pedicels up to 2.5 mm long. Flowers sometimes male, sex disposition in trees unknown. Hypanthium 2-3 mm high, shortly hairy outside, with long hairs at base inside. Perianth differentiated as sepals and petals, but these only differing in shape, not in size, 5-6-merous. Sepals triangular, c. 1 mm long. Petals elliptic, c. 1 mm long, densely hairy. Stamens 50-80, filaments up to 4.5 mm, glabrous, anthers c. 0.5 mm long. Ovary glabrous or with some few hairs, style up to c. 3 mm long, pistillodium in male flowers minute, hidden in the hairs on the bottom of the hypanthium. Fruits ellipsoid to (rarely) subglobular, 18-25 by 16-21 mm, exocarp glabrous, colour when ripe unknown, endocarp glabrous or sparsely hairy inside. Seed with glabrous testa or with few hairs especially near apex.
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