Tree up to 23 m tall, with buttresses up to 1.5 m high, dioecious. Leafy twigs 2-4 mm thick, whitish to brownish puberulous. Leaves spirally arranged; lamina ovate to subcordiform, 9-14(-24) by 5-8(-15) cm, subcoriaceous, apex acuminate, base (sub)cordate to rounded, margin subentire to irregularly crenate-dentate; upper surface sparsely whitish puberulous, ± scabrous; lower surface whitish puberulous to subtomentose; midrib slightly impressed above, lateral veins 3 or 4 pairs, tertiary venation scalariform; petiole 1.5-6 cm long, whitish appressedly puberulous; stipules 0.4-0.6 cm long, ± densely whitish to yellowish appressedly puberulous, caducous. Staminate inflorescences unknown. Pistillate inflorescences axillary, solitary, spicate; peduncle 0.7-1.2 cm long, minutely puberulous; flowers numerous; tepals c. 2 mm long, minutely puberulous, in fruit up to 4 mm long; ovary c. 1.5 mm long, stigmas 1.5-2 mm long; bracts basally attached, 0.3-1 mm long, minutely puberulous. Drupe obovoid, c. 0.7 cm long when dry, yellow to orange (to red?) at maturity.
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