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Evergreen shrub, may reach up to 10 m high, with numerous branching arching stilt roots. Bark brown or blackish, smooth, with horizontal fissures. Leaves opposite, elliptical to oblong, up to 8 cm long, acute, entire, without visible veins, thick and leathery, glabrous, black-dotted beneath. Petiole 3–5 cm long. Stipules paired, leaving ring scar. Flower clusters axillary, 2–3 times forked, with 3–8 flowers 10 mm long, with pale yellow, pointed leathery sepals and 4 cream-colored petals 9 mm long. Berry ovoid or conical, 5–7 cm long, brown, leathery. Seed single viviparous, becoming cigar-shaped, to 40 cm long and 2 cm in diameter |
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