Tree (3–)6–15(–25) m high; stem single, to 45 cm in diameter; crown branched. Leaves clustered at branch ends, leathery, narrowly lanceolate, sessile, 40–130 cm long, 4–16 cm wide, base narrowed and clasping, apex attenuate towards acute tip. Inflorescence erect becoming pendulous in fruit, paniculate, 0.3–1(–2) m long and up to 1.5 m wide; flowers in almost globose groups of up to 100 flowers; pedicels 2.5 mm long, articulated above the middle. Flowers white, cream or greenish white, 11–18 mm long, tube 6–10 mm long, lobes 5–8 mm long and 0.5–1 mm wide, translucent, 1-ribbed. Fruits bronze to dark purple to blackish red, 12–30 mm in diameter; pulp orange; seeds white, globose, 10 mm in diameter.