Trees, up to 25 m high, dbh up to 90 cm; flowering branches 3.5-5 mm thick, ribbed to smooth, hirsute when young, descending. Bark: outer red or brown on trunk to grey on branches, smooth, c. 2 mm thick; inner reddish brown, c. 0.5 cm thick; wood soft to hard, odourless, slightly bitter; sapwood thin, white tinged reddish. Stipules obovate, c. 7 by 2.5 mm. Leaves descending; petiole 5-13 mm long, laterally flattened and deeply keeled on upper side with the walls touching, leaving a closed groove; blade ovate to obovate, 7.3-21.5 by 3.8-7.1 cm, length/width ratio 2.5-3.2, darker green above, brown when dry, margin flat, apex ascending, upper surface glabrous (except for the basal part of the midrib), lower surface subglabrous, nerves 8-11 per side. Bracts on brachyblasts c. 0.7 by 0.7 mm. Flowers 5-7 by 4-8 mm diam., odourless, ascending. Staminate flowers: pedicel 9-10 mm long; upper part above abscission zone 3-4 mm long; sepals elliptic to obovate, 3.8-5 by 2.2-3 mm, green; petals elliptic to obovate, 4-5.2 by 1.2-2 mm, cream white; disc lobes 0.9-1.4 by 0.7-0.9 mm; stamens: androphore 4-5.5 mm long, filaments 1-1.3 mm long, cream-white; anthers ± triangular, 0.8-1.1 by 0.7-0.9 mm, dull yellow. Pistillate flowers not seen. Fruits 1.4-1.6 by 1.5-1.7 cm high, red to purple; wall c. 2.5 mm thick. Seeds 5.8-7.5 by 5.3-6.5 mm; aril covering seed also adaxially, pink; hilum 2.8-4 mm broad. Embryo 6-6.5 by 5.5-6 mm; plumule and radicle not seen.
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