Trees up to 35 m, sometimes buttressed, bark (dark to greyish) brown, smooth or shallowly fissured and with vertical lines of lenticels. Twigs sparsely to densely hairy. Leaves elliptic to oblong, rarely ovate, 6-17(-20) by 2-8(-10) cm, base rounded to acute, apex tapering or acuminate, herbaceous to coriaceous, with 6-13 pairs of nerves, venation usually inconspicuous, sparsely to densely hairy when young, upper surface becoming (almost) glabrous, lower surface usually still hairy when mature, basal glands (0-)2-6, flat. Petiole 0.2-1 cm long. Stipules ovatish to triangular, 2.5-6(-14) by 1-2.5 mm, free, usually with marginal glands. Racemes solitary, mostiy in axils of fallen leaves, 1.5-7(-15) cm long, peduncle short, rachis densely hairy, pedicels 0-2(-4) mm long. Flowers fragrant, sometimes male. Hypanthium 1.5-3 mm high, hairy outside. Perianth segments subequal and not regularly differentiated as sepals and petals, 7-13, up to 2 mm long. Stamens 15-40, filaments up to 5 mm, glabrous or hairy at base, anthers 0.5-1 mm long. Ovary densely hairy, style up to 3 mm long, often hairy, pistillode in male flowers minute, hairy. Fruits transversely ellipsoid to subglobular (see note), in New Guinea and New Ireland 9-16 by 9-18 mm, in the Solomon Islands up to 17.5 mm long and 20(-23) mm wide, usually hairy, purplish black when ripe, mesocarp often rather thick, endocarp glabrous or with few hairs inside. Seed with hairy testa, sometimes hairs only near the hilum.
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