Shrub, perhaps epiphytic; twigs slightly compressed, glabrous, stout; sap yel-low, sticky. Leaves obovate, 20-30 cm long, 10-15 cm wide, apically obtuse, minutely umbonate, basally obtuse and abruptly narrowed into the petiole, the costa subplane and evanescent distally above, elevated beneath, the lateral veins nearly straight, arcuate into the margin, not forming a discernable submarginal vein, mostly 1-2 cm apart with numerous wavy cross veins running tangentially to the leaf base; petioles short, stout, 5-10 mm long, with an axillary flap. Inflorescences probably much reduced, the main axis 2-3 mm long, the pedicels great-ly enlarging in fruit. Flowers with the bud depressed-globose, 10-15 mm across (after Maguire), sepals 4, decussate, the outer pair longer and including the inner pair, ovate, oblong, 10-12 mm long, subcoriaceous; petals not seen; stamens 3-seriate, free, linear, sublaterally compressed, 3.5-4 mm long, ca. 0.5 mm wide, the anthers lateral at the filament tips, ca. 1 mm long; pollen not seen; ovary 5-locular, the ovules solitary, basally fixed. Fruit obovoid to subglobose, 4-5 mm long, conspicuously brown flecked; seeds ca. 1 cm across.
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