Tree, 25-30 m, 30-40 cm Ø. Twigs glabrous. Leaves acuminate, base cuneate, often the very base rounded, margin entire, recurved, (narrowly) obovate, 15-22 by 4½-8½ cm; nerves 9-14 pairs, meeting in a looped intramarginal vein; petiole 8-15 mm. Flowers in a raceme to 8 cm, axis pubescent. Bracts and bracteoles caducous, pubescent, ovate, 3-4 and 2-3 mm long respectively. Pedicel to 2 mm. Calyx glabrous, oblique, 3-4 mm, the lobes ovate, 2-3 mm. Corolla c. 6 mm. Stamens c. 100 or more. Disk shortly pilose. Ovary glabrous, 1-2 mm high; style with broadly conical shortly pilose base, the rest glabrous, c. 5 mm. Fruit ellipsoid, 15-20 by 10-12 mm, stone with c. 6 lengthwise ridges, mostly 2-celled. Seeds not seen.
Primary high rainforest, at low altitude, c. 200 m. Fl. June-July; fr. Febr., Sept.
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