Allophylus ferrugineus Taub.

Tree or shrub or sometimes a climber or creeper 0.9–9 m. long or tall, monoecious; bark grey, brown or reddish, smooth; slash white; young branchlets pubescent.. Leaves trifoliolate; petiole (1–)2–10 cm. long; petiolule of terminal leaflet often well developed, 0.8–1.3(–2) cm. long; leaflets drying bright green, elliptic, ovate-oblong, rhomboid, obovate or oblanceolate, (2.5–) 6–22 cm. long, (0.9–)2.5–11 cm. wide, acute to acuminate at the apex, attenuate to cuneate at the base, the laterals very asymmetric, regularly toothed or serrate, glabrous, pubescent, ferruginous hairy or velvety, with or without hairy domatia in the axils of nerves beneath; lateral nerves in 5–10 pairs.. Inflorescences (3.5–)7.5–34(–47) cm. long (see note), usually unbranched, often slender and drooping; peduncles 1.5–5 cm. long; cymules 1–6-flowered, the stalks 1.5–5 mm. long, usually well-spaced; pedicels 1.5–3(–5) mm. long, minutely puberulous.. Flowers green, white, greenish white or yellow; outer sepals elliptic, 1–1.5 mm. long, 1 mm. wide, sparsely puberulous, inner ± round, 1.5–2 mm. diameter; petals spathulate, 2 mm. long, 1 mm. wide.. Filaments ± 2 mm. long, hairy in basal half.. Style ± 1 mm. long, with few hairs; stigma 0.5–1 mm. long.. Fruit orange to scarlet, often of 2–3 mericarps, each ellipsoid, obovoid or globose, 5–8 mm. long., 4–6.5 mm. wide, or 7.5 mm. diameter, at first sparsely hairy, glabrescent.

It is a tropical plant. It grows in the mountain rainforest. It suits humid locations. It grows between 300-2,500 m above sea level. It can be on termite mounds.

The fruit are sweet and are eaten fresh.