Trees, up to 27 m high; dbh up to 41 cm; buttresses up to 1.5 m long, 80 cm high, 12.5 cm thick; flowering branches 2.5-8 mm thick, ribbed to smooth, hirsute when young. Indumentum of white hairs. Bark with watery, yellow exudate; outer (red-)brown to chocolate brown to dark grey, smooth to rough and lenticellate, c. 2 mm thick; inner reddish brown to (pale) brown, granular, soft, c. 1 cm thick; cambium yellow; sapwood white to light brown; heartwood dark brown. Stipules obovate, 2.5-9 by 0.8-3 mm. Leaves: petiole 6-12 mm long, reniform in transverse section to laterally flattened and deeply keeled on upper side with the walls touching, leaving a closed groove; blade (ovate to) elliptic to obovate, 4.8-19.5 by 2-8.2 cm, length/width ratio 2.1-3(-3.8), red when young, darker green above when mature, margin flat (to revolute), upper surface glabrous except for the basal part of the midrib, lower surface subglabrous to hirsute, nerves 8-11 per side. Bracts on brachyblasts c. 0.7 by 0.7 mm. Flowers 5-6 by 4-7 mm diam., fragrant; pedicels 6-8 mm long; upper part above abscission zone 1.3-2.4 mm long; sepals ovate to elliptic (to obovate), 2.3-4.3 by 1.3-3.5 mm, light green; petals white; disc lobes 0.7-1.4 by 0.3-1.2 mm. Staminate flowers: petals obovate, 3-3.8 by 1.1-1.3 mm; stamens: androphore 4-5.2 mm long, filaments 0.5-0.8 mm long, white; anthers ± triangular, 0.7-1 by 0.4-0.8 mm, yellow. Pistillate flowers: petals obovate, 3.8-5.8 by 1.2-3 mm; ovary ± globose, 2.3-2.6 by 1.3-2.3 mm, style 0.3-0.6 mm long, stigmas c. 2.5 mm long, lobes c. 1.8 mm long, glass-like to white. Fruits 0.9-1.3 by 1-1.3 cm high, red to purple; wall 1.5-2.3 mm thick. Seeds 4.5-5.7 by 4.5-5.2 mm; aril adaxially at most basally touching, pink; hilum 1.6-3.5 mm broad. Embryo 4.2-4.8 by 4-4.8 mm; plumule and radicle c. 1 mm long.
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A tree. It grows bout 30 m tall. The leaves are alternate and simple. They are hairy underneath. The flower are 8 mm across and greenish-white. They are in bundles in the axils of leaves. The fruit are about 1 cm across. They are greenish-white. They are capsules. The seeds have a white fleshy layer or aril around them.
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