Slender tree or shrub, to 4 m tall, less than 8 cm dbh; stems puberulent when young, glabrate in age. Leaves puberulent when young, glabrous except on veins in age; petioles less than 1 cm long; blades obovate to oblong-elliptic, abruptly acuminate, rounded to obtuse at base, 10-23 cm long, 5-9 cm wide. Flowers greenish, 1 to few, opposite leaves or internodal; pedicels to 1.5 cm long; sepals 3, ovate, to ca 4 mm long, acuminate; petals valvate, the outer 3 to 3.2 cm long, connate to 5 mm at base, abruptly narrowed ca 1 cm above base, dark violet-purple inside at base, the inner three 5-7 mm long, connate with outer petals at base; stamens numerous, 1-1.5 mm long. Fruits fleshy aggregates, oblong-ellipsoid, 4-6 cm long, ca 3 cm diam, densely pubescent, smooth or with slightly raised anastomosing lines, these forming irregular isodiametric cells; seeds numerous, 1 per carpet. Croat 11428, 14879.