Tree up to 25 m high and 50 cm Ø. Buttresses occasionally present, 1 m high. Bark smooth. Leaves subcoriaceous, elliptic-lanceolate, 11½— 22½ by 3-6½ cm, glabrous; papillae distinct, all over the lower surface except the midrib; base cuneate (margins separate); apex acuminate; nerves 12-20 pairs; veins reticulate, rather faint; petiole 3½-6½ cm, terete in the lower ⅔-½ and flat above in the upper ⅓-½. Panicles 22-26 cm long, puberulous; terminal parts of branches laxly branched, with spacious internodes, loosely flowered; floral bracts ovate, ½-½ long; pedicels c. 1 mm. Calyx divided almost to the base, lobes suborbicular, ⅔-l mm Ø. Floral axis between calyx and stamens not elongated. Petals broadly elliptic or elliptic, 1½-2½ by l-½ mm, cuneate at the base, sparsely puberulous, glabrescent, on both surfaces, sometimes also papillose at the base inside. Disk lobes confluent with the base of filaments. Stamens ¾-l ¼ mm; anthers oblong, c. ⅓ mm long. Ovary globose, 1 mm Ø; style ø mm; stigma capitellate. Abortive pistil in ♂ c. ⅓ mm long. Drupe globose, c. 1½ cm ø; enlarged petals elliptic, or ovate-oblong, ¾-174 by ⅓-⅔ cm.
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