Tree 3-5 m tall; bark greyish, smooth; branchlets glabrous. Leaves petiolate, coriaceous, grey-green, glabrous; blade oblong-elliptic to ovate-elliptic, 7-14 cm long, 4-8 cm broad, penninerved; apex rounded to emarginate, base obtuse; margin entire, slightly thickened; petiole 6-12 mm long, channelled above. Inflorescence shortly pedunculate or fasciculate, 1-7-flowered; pedicels 1-2 cm long; bracts minute, scale-like. Sepals 5, united at the base, imbricate, triangular, 1-1.5 mm long, persistent and reflexed at the fruiting stage. Petals (4-)5(-6), greenish yellow to yellow, spreading, subrotund, ca. 3 mm in diameter, subentire. Disc fleshy, obscurely 5-angled. Stamens 5, alternating with the petals, subsessile, arising from small protuberances near the margin of the disc. Ovary 3-locular, almost completely immersed in the disc; locule 2-ovulate; ovules collateral, erect; style 1, very short; stigma not distinguishable. Fruit capsular, globose, 2-3 cm in diameter, eventually dehiscent; pericarp thick, leathery, dark brown, minutely verruculose. Seeds 2-5, brown, glabrous, trigonous, 8-12 mm long; endosperm present.
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Shrub or tree, up to 7 m high. Branchlets hairless, angular and flattened, becoming terete. Leaves alternate, leathery, glossy dark green above, paler below; lamina oblong-elliptic to ovate-elliptic, 70-140 x 40-80 mm, apex rounded to emarginate, base broadly cuneate, margins entire, slightly thickened, veins looping along margins; petioles 6-15 mm long. Inflorescences shortly pedunculate or fasciculate, 1-7-flowered. Flowers greenish or yellowish orange, ± 15 mm in diam.; pedicels 10-20 mm long. Sepals triangular, ± 1 mm long. Petals suborbicular, ± 3 mm in diam., subentire. Disc fleshy, green, obscurely 5-angled. Ovary 3-locular; style very short. Fruit a globose capsule, 20-30 mm in diam.; pericarp thick, woody, pale brown, verrucose.
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