Shrub or small tree to 8 m; young branches more or less glabrous, or pruinose or minutely puberulous; the nodes soon becoming dilated, and pores developing. Leaves oblong-elliptic, or broadly elliptic to ob-ovate, coriaceous, 20-41 by 7-18 cm; base cuneate or rounded, apex apiculate to long acuminate, mar-gin entire or occasionally with well-spaced small dentations, glabrous or minutely pubescent on the midribs and principal veins, veins impressed above, prominent below. Foliage of juvenile plants lanceolate, c. 27 by 4 cm, base narrowly cuneate, apex attenuate, irregularly dentate; petiole to 1 cm. Monoecious. Inflorescence axillary or above the nodes, arising successively at the same position, becoming cauliflorous, polychasia or paniculate cymes, minutely pubescent, up to 9 cm long, rachis rather stout, often flattened, with small caducous bracts; pedicels slender, 10-15 mm long. Male receptacles variable in shape, usually turbinate with an expanded flat rim, or this more or less obsolete, 2.5-5 (or more) mm ø; tepals 4, minute, obtuse; stamens 4, 1-1.5 mm high, filament broad, puberulous. Female receptacle turbinate with a broadly expanded flat rim, to c. 12 mm ø; tepals 4, minute, carpels nu-merous, ovary pilose, style awl-shaped, glabrous above. Fruit with large succulent receptacle (c. 3-4 cm ø) bearing many drupes on short thick stipes. Drupes ovoid to globose, c. 12 by 10 mm, verruculose.
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