Tree to 6 m tall. Leaves membranous or chartaceous, obovate, to 25 cm long, to 7 cm wide, apically acuminate, basally obtuse or acute, sometimes falcate, the costa narrowly and sharply elevated beneath, subplane above, the lateral veins numerous, 17-20 on each side, nearly straight, ascending, branching near the margin and loop connected but not forming a submarginal vein, slightly further spaced near the apex, chartaceous or membranous, drying beneath with con-spicuous, numerous canals parallel to the lateral veins, the costa and lateral veins minutely puberulent near the base; petiole almost wanting or to 25 mm long, minutely puberulent beneath. Inflorescence an open, ?pendulous panicle, the axes elongate, lax, minutely puberulent, the pedicels ca. 6 mm long, becoming 15-20 mm long in fruit. Flowers (after Vesque, 1893) ca. 15 mm across, calycine bracts (outer sepals) lacking, sepals 5, quincuncial, orbicular, the outermost smaller; petals 5, apparently alternating with the sepals, obovate, contracted into a broad limb; stamens to 20, indistinctly 2-seriate, free, the filaments linear, compressed, the anthers small, the connective bordered by the two basally di-verging, laterally and introrsely dehiscent anther locules, the staminodes forming a solid column in the center; pistillate flowers (after Planchon & Triana) with the stamens few or none, the staminodial annulus shielding the ovary; ovary short, stout, surmounted by 5 thick stigmas. Fruit obovoid to pyriform, 25-30 mm long, pale green tinged with red (Croat 34216), the styles forming a small apiculum, the base with 3-4 persistent, coriaceous, minute sepals.
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