Leaves with petioles usually puberulous, 1.8-2.5 cm; lamina elliptic to narrowly elliptic to lanceolate-elliptic, apex abruptly to gradually acuminate, base obtuse to rounded, 8-12 (-18) by 3-6 (-8) cm, lateral nerves 6-8 pairs, midrib often puberulous be-low, surfaces otherwise glabrous. Inflorescences ramiflorous, fasciculate, peduncles 1-flowered. Male flowers with minutely puberulous pedicels, 5-10 mm; outer sepals 2-4, minute; inner sepals yel-low, 3, concave, rotund, 2 mm long, thick and fleshy except towards margin; petals 3, oblate, 0.75-1 mm long; stamens 7-12, tightly clustered, c. 0.5 mm long. Female flowers: outer sepals 1-2, minute, puberulous; inner sepals yellow, 4-6, 2.25 mm long; petals 3, ± broadly obovate, 1.5-2 mm, glabrous, thick; carpels 3-4, 1 mm long, subellipsoidal, style short, recurved. Drupes borne on unbranched puberulous to subglabrous peduncles 7-20 mm, globose, 12-15 mm ø, minutely tomentellous or puberulous; endocarp crustaceous.
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