Small or medium-sized evergreen tree to 25 m tall with dense pyramidal or dome-like crown. Leaves 14-24 cm long, opposite, elliptic-oblong. Female flowers c. 5 cm across, solitary, dark pink to red-purple, male flowers unknown. Fruits 6-7 cm across, globose, seated on persistent leathery sepals, dull re-purple to dark purplish brown when ripe.