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A small evergreen tree, although it can lose many of its leaves during the year. It grows to 5-10 m tall and spreads to 2 m wide. Trees can be 40 m high. It has a dense round crown. The stem is erect and branching. The bark is smooth and brown. The leaves are simple and oblong. They are produced alternately along the branch. They are 10-30 cm long and 4-12 cm wide. The leaves are dark green above and much paler underneath. The veins are prominent and raised underneath the leaf. The leaf stalk is 1-2.5 cm long. Male and female flowers occur on separate trees. The flowers are very small and greenish white and at the ends of branches. The flowering branches can be 10-30 cm long and flowers 0.5 cm across. Male flowers do not have stalks and are smaller than female flowers. The fruit are round and brown. They are 2-3 cm wide. They have a coarse leathery skin. They are attached to a swollen fleshy orange base. They contain one seed.
Tree to 40 m high. Branchlets glabrescent. Leaves oblong-obovate, oblanceolate or elliptic, obtuse, acuminate or acute, subcoriaceous; lamina mostly 10–30 cm long and 4–12 cm wide; base narrowly cuneate; secondary veins 10–20 pairs; petiole 1–2.5 cm long. Panicles puberulous, glabrescent. Male flowers sessile; calyx lobes triangular, 0.5 mm long, puberulous; petals ovate, c. 1.5 mm long, glabrous; anthers 0.8 mm long; filaments 2 mm long; disc 1.6 mm diam., pubescent; pistillode a tuft of hairs. Female flowers: pedicels to 1 mm long; calyx lobes 0.7 mm long; petals 3.5–4 mm long, puberulous or glabrous; staminodes 1.8–2 mm long; disc c. 3.5 mm diam., pubescent; ovary pubescent; styles 1 mm long. Drupe obliquely transverse-ellipsoidal, compressed, 2–3 cm wide, eccentrically beaked. Hypocarp orange.
