Shrub to medium-sized tree up to 28 m, 40 cm ø. Trunk often fluted, low-buttressed, occasionally producing suckers. Bark smooth to finely fissured, peeling off into rectangular flakes, lenticellate. Young parts densely or sparsely greyish-brown or rufous, short, simple pubescent. Stipules subulate, 2-3 by ¼ mm. Leaves glabrous, thin-to thick-coriaceous, ovate, elliptic, or obovate, (2-)3-6(-10) by (l-)2-3(-4) cm, index 2-2.6; base attenuate or rounded, more or less equal-sided; margin serrate, dentate, or rarely subentire, ends of serration occasionally developing into sharply mucro-nate structures; apex acute, or rounded, tip blunt; midrib and nerves strongly raised beneath, flattish above; nerves (3-)4-5(-7) pairs, ascending, straight or arcuating, subparallel, at 30-45° with the midrib, not anastomosing near the margin; reticulations fine, lax, subscalariform, faintly visible beneath; petiole (2-)3-5(-7) by 1 mm, adaxially flat or shallowly sulcate. ♂ Inflorescence 1-3 cm ø, 10-50-flowered; bracts linear-acute or narrow ovate-acute, ½-l by ½ mm; ♂ flowers 1-1½ mm ø; perianth lobes ovate-lanceolate, 1-1½ by ½-l mm; filaments ½-¾ mm, anthers c. ¾ by ½ mm. ♀Flowers always solitaryy, ovoid-ellipsoid, 1-1½ by 1 mm, c. 5 mm pedicelled; perianth lobes narrow ovate-acute, ½-1 by ½ mm; ovary l-1½ by 1 mm, densely appressed-hairy; stigmatic arms 2-3 mm. Fruit ovoid-globose, 6-8 by 4-6 mm, 3-4-angular, sparsely appressed-pubescent, glabrescent, pedicel c. 5-10 mm.
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Shrub or tree to 35 m high; trunk sometimes buttressed. Leaves: lamina elliptic to broadly ovate, c. 2.5–10 cm long, c. 1–3.5 cm wide, mostly serrate margin (the teeth distant), mucronate to pungent at apex, rough-asperate (sandpaper-like to touch); venation prominent below; petiole 3–5 mm long. Male flowers: tepals ovate-lanceolate, 1–1.5 mm long; stamens with filaments c. 0.5 mm long; anthers c. 0.75 mm long. Female flowers solitary; pedicel to 5 mm long; tepals narrowly ovate to lanceolate, 0.5–1 mm long, persistent; stigmatic arms recurved, 2–3 mm long, persistent. Drupe ovoid or ellipsoid to globose, somewhat acuminate, c. 6–12 mm long, slightly angular, green or yellow, glabrescent; pedicel to 1 cm long. See also Zich et al. (2020).
A medium sized tree. It grows 8-12 m tall. The trunk is irregular and has buttresses at the base. The leaves are dark green above and have a rough surface. They are simple, alternate and have sharp teeth. They are narrowly oval and 3-10 cm long. Male and female flowers are separate. The flowers are small and cream to green. The fruit are greenish-yellow. They turn black when ripe.
In primary and secondary forest subject to a rather strong seasonal climate, 0-750 m. In New Guinea it is often found in semi-deciduous gallery-or mixed Eucalyptus-forest, occasionally forming dense thickets especially on hillsides. Fl. Apr.-May and Sept.-Oct.; fr. mature in July-Aug. and Nov.-Dec.
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Grows in rainforest. A shrub in depauperate rainforest thickets to a canopy tree in monsoon rainforest. According to Zich et al. (2020), grows in drier, more seasonal rainforest often associated with Kauri Pine (Agathis robusta).
It is a tropical plant. It grows in drier rainforest and along rivers. It grows from sea level to 900 m above sea level.
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