Medium-sized evergreen tree to 27 m tall with dense narrowly conical crown. Leaves 14-28 cm long, oblong to oblong-lanceolate, opposite. Male flowers 3-3.5 cm long, bright red, in few-flowered clusters; female flowers solitary or rarely in pairs, red. Fruits to 8 cm across, spherical or slightly flattened with 12-16 vertical furrows seated on persistent sepals and petals, ripening yellow to orange.