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Tree usually 6–15 m tall, with (sometimes multiple) boles to 90 cm diam., and narrow flattened, ribbon-like extended and branched buttress-roots; pneumatophores absent; bark thin, smooth, irregularly scaling, whitish to yellow-brown mottled. Leaf rachis and petiole to 9 cm long, usually much less; terminal/apical spike usually absent. Leaflets usually 1 or 2 pairs, obovate or elliptic, usually 5–12 cm long, 3–6 cm wide, cuneate at base, obtuse, rounded or even emarginate at apex, coriaceous; venation prominent only when dried; petiolules usually 5–6 mm long, swollen. Inflorescence usually (1–) 3–6 cm long, borne on old and young twigs, often without distinct axis and unbranched; bracts and bracteoles caducous. Pseudopedicels 3–9 mm long, somewhat swollen beneath calyx lobes. Calyx lobes 1–1.3 mm long. Petals oblong, 3.5–5.5 mm long, 2–3 mm wide, cream or pinkish. Staminal tube 2–3.5 mm diam.; marginal lobes apiculate or bifid to retuse. Capsule flattened-globose, 12–25 cm diam. Seeds usually 8–16, 4–6 cm long; first leaves simple.
Tree or shrub (1–)6–15(–20) m with thin, branched, ribbon-like buttresses spread-ing out from base; bole solitary or occasionally more, to 90(–180, Watson) cm diam., often of poor form. Bark thin, smooth, scaling as irregular flakes, whitish to yellow-brown; inner bark reddish or pink. Leaf rachis and petiole to 9(–12) cm, usually much less. Leaflets in 1 or 2 (3) pairs, (3.5–)5–12 by (2–)3–6 cm, coriaceous, obovate or elliptic, base cuneate, apex rounded or obtuse, venation prominent on both surfaces in sicco, petiolules (2–)5–6(–11) mm, swollen. Thyrses (1–)3–6 cm, ± squarrose, borne on new and older twigs, frequently ± forked with indistinct main axis; bracts and brac-teoles 0.5 mm, caducous; pedicels 3–9 mm, conspicuously swollen towards the calyx. Calyx lobes 1–3 mm long. Petals 3.5–5.5(–6.5) by 2–3 mm, oblong, creamy white or pinkish. Staminal tube 2–3.5 mm diam., lobes apiculate or bifid to retuse. Fruit 12–25 cm diam., flattened-globose. Seeds 8–16(–20), 4–6 cm long. First leaves simple.
Trees or shrubs, to 5 m tall. Branches gray, smooth, glabrous. Leaves ca. 15 cm; petiole and rachis cylindric, glabrous; petiole 3-5 cm; leaflets usually 4, opposite; petiolules ca. 4 mm, base inflated; leaflet blades elliptic to obovate-oblong, 4-9 × 2.5-5 cm, subleathery, both surfaces glabrous and usually pale, secondary veins 8-10 on each side of midvein, ascending, anastomosing near margin, reticulate veins sparse and ± obvious, base cuneate to broadly cuneate, margin entire, apex rounded. Cymes consisting of 1-3 flowers, many cymes forming thyrses, glabrous. Pedicel 1 cm or more. Calyx lobes rounded. Petals white, obovate-oblong, ca. 6 mm, leathery. Staminal tube lobes suborbicular and weakly 2-cleft; anthers ellipsoid, glabrous, base cordate. Disk ± as high as ovary, base contracting, apex fleshy, striate. Style subquadrigonal, glabrous; stigma ± as long as staminal tube. Capsule 10-12 cm in diam., stipitate, with 8-12 seeds. Fl. and fr. Apr-Nov.
A tall evergreen tree. It grows 15 m high. It has a single trunk. They are shorter in low rainfall areas. Often the trunk is crooked when grown in mangrove swamps. The buttresses extend across the mud. The bark is bright orange brown and smooth. It can have buttresses and aerial roots. The bark is yellowish green. The leaves are alternate and tend to be pointed upwards. The leaves are dark green and oval. The are leathery and have a rounded tip. The base tapers. The leaves are 6 cm long by 3 cm wide. The flowers are very small and white or cream. The flowers are four parted and about 1 cm wide. They occur at the ends of branches in small clusters. The fruit is very large and brown. They are round and occur singly. They have a long stalk. The fruit is round and 12-15 cm across and brown when ripe. The seeds are like four faced triangles.
