Tree, 25 m. Young branchlets thick, glabrous, sympodial. Leaves coriaceous spirally arranged and crowded at the ends of the branchlets, glabrous, shiny above, minutely verruculose above and below, spathulate, oblanceolate or narrowly obovate-ellptic, 10-20 by 4-8 cm, rounded at the apex, narrowly cuneate at the base and decurrent into the petiole; nerves 9-12 pairs; petiole glabrous, 1-2 cm, with two glands (sometimes inconspicuous) at or near the apex. Flowers not known. Fruit glabrous, suborbicular to broadly elliptic in outline, 7½ by 6 by c. 3 cm, circumalate with a stiff narrow wing 2-4 mm broad, closely resembling a small tortoise in shape.
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