Liana or small tree; stem grey, branchlets terete, reddish brown with numerous blackish lenticels. Petiole stout, 1.2-1.7 cm long; blades coriaceous or thin-coriaceous, more or less shiny, elliptic, 6.5-13.5(-25) x 3-7.5 cm, margins entire, thickened, revolute, apex shortly cuspidate, base acute to obtuse, often somewhat falcate; primary vein prominent on both surfaces, secondary veins 6-8, arcuately ascending, with intermediates, slightly prominulous above, prominulous beneath, tertiary veins inconspicuous. Inflorescence ceriferous, axillary, pseudo-dichotomously branched almost from the base; bracts and bracteoles ovate, less than 1 mm long; pedicels 0-1.7 mm long. Flowers 2.5-3 mm diam.; sepals ovate-deltoid, 0.5-1 mm long, entire or erosulous; petals yellowish white or green, papillose, oblong-obovate, 1.3-2.2 mm long, margins subentire or erosulous; disk thin, 0.2-0.4 mm high; stamens suberect, becoming reflexed, filaments 0.5-0.8 mm long, anthers 0.2-0.3 x 0.4-0.6 mm, dehiscing extrorsely; ovary depressed-globose to trigonous, ovules 2 per locule, superposed, style short, stigmas 3, slightly bilobed, spreading, alternating with the stamens. Fruit ellipsoid to trigonous, to 4 x 2.4 cm, pericarp rather smooth or somewhat rugulose, turning from olive-or dark-green to yellow or orange; seeds ellipsoid or irregularly shaped, pale brown.
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