Small tree, 6-10 m, 25 cm ø. Twigs glabrous. Leaves glabrous, elliptic, with acute to nearly rounded base, denticulate margin and acuminate to rounded apex, 12-20 by 5-12 cm; nerves 8-12 pairs, whether meeting in an intramarginal vein or not; petiole 10-30mm. Spike branched, to 5 cm with minutely appressedly hairy axis. Bracts and bracteoles persistent, ± ovate, with same indument, 2-3 mm long. Calyx divided into semi-orbicular, glabrous but ciliolate 1½-2 mm long lobes. Corolla c. 6 mm. Stamens c. 50. Disk glabrous. Ovary c. 1 mm high, glabrous; style glabrous, 4-5 mm, or reduced. Fruit ovoid to globose, c. 10 by 9 mm with globose to ampulliform stone of c. 8 by 7 mm (the neck c. 2 mm long and the belly irregularly length-wise grooved, c. 6 mm high). Seed 1, U-shaped with U-shaped embryo.
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