Trees up to 25 m, buttresses sometimes present, bark grey (-brown), strongly smelling. Twigs sparsely hairy to glabrous. Leaves oblong to oblong-ovate, 10-15 by 4-8 cm, base rounded to acute, apex acute, herbaceous, with 7-9 pairs of nerves, venation not conspicuous, glabrous to very sparsely hairy, basal glands 2, flat. Petiole 0.7-1 cm long. Stipules (few seen) c. 6 by 2 mm, free. Racemes solitary or in fascicles of 2-3, in axils of extant or fallen leaves, 3-10 cm long, peduncle very short, rachis hairy, pedicels 1-2 mm long. Only male flowers seen. Hypanthium c. 2 mm high, hairy outside. Sepals triangular, c. 1 mm long, hairy. Petals elliptic to obovate, c. 1 mm long, hairy. Stamens 35-45, filaments 1.5 mm, anthers 0.5-0.7 mm long. Pistillode in male flowers minute, ovary in bisexual flowers probably hairy. Fruits transversely ellipsoid to didymous, 15-19 by 22-28(-30) mm, exocarp sparsely hairy to glabrous, purplish black when ripe, mesocarp rather thick, endocarp glabrous inside. Seed with glabrous testa.
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