Tree up to 35 m tall, evergreen. Leafy twigs 6-8 mm thick, ± densely brown (to whitish) appressedly puberulous, drying brown; lenticels scattered. Leaves spirally arranged; lamina coriaceous, entire, elliptic, sometimes 3-lobed to pinnately incised, 10-40 by 3.5-17(-30) cm, apex short-acuminate, base cuneate to obtuse, margin entire to repand (to sublobate); upper surface glabrous, smooth; lower surface glabrous or sparsely whitish appressedly puberulous on the midrib, smooth; lateral veins 9-14 pairs, mostly some of them forked away from the margin or branched venation scalariform, slightly prominent; petiole 1-3(-5.5) cm long, 2-5 mm thick, minutely whitish appressedly puberulous, the epidermis persistent; stipules fully amplexicaul, 1-4.5 cm long, brown appressedly puberulous, caducous. Staminate inflorescences axillary, solitary; peduncle 2-7 cm long, brown (to whitish) appressedly puberulous; head ellipsoid to subobovoid to narrowly elliptic to cylindrical, 3-6 by 1-1.5(-2) cm; perianth tubular c. 2 mm long, the apex 2-lobed, minutely puberulous to subglabrous; stamen 3-3.5 mm long, anther c. 0.3 mm long; interfloral bracts peltate, the apical part 0.3-0.4 mm diam., radially appressedly puberulous. Pistillate inflorescences axillary, solitary; peduncle 2.5-7 cm long, densely brown (to whitish) appressedly puberulous; head subglobose; perianth tubular, brown puberulous, the apex ± convex; stigma bifid; interfloral bracts peltate, caducous or persistent, the apical part 0.3-0.4 mm diam., radially appressedly puberulous. Infructescences subglobose, 6-7 cm diam., sometimes ± lobed, covered with 3-4 mm long, cylindrical apices of the perianths; fruits ellipsoid, 1-1.5 cm long.
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A tree. It grows to 35 m tall. The trunk is 90 cm across. There are short buttresses. The bark is pale grey to dark grey. The twigs are 6-8 mm thick. There are ring like scars. The leaves are thickly leathery. They are oval or sword shaped and 10-35 cm long by 5-20 cm wide. They are smooth on both sides. The edges can be wavy. The tip is rounded and the base tapers. Young leaves are deeply lobed. There are 6-14 pairs of secondary veins. The leaf stalk is 1-3 cm long. The flowers are solitary in the axils of leaves but the male flowers are in pairs. The male heads are finger like and 30-60 mm long by 13-18 mm wide. They are smooth. The flower stalk is 25-70 mm long. The fruit is compound. It is dull green to brown and roundish. It is 8 cm long by 7 cm wide. It has widely spaced and slightly tapering hair like processes. The fruit stalk is 4 cm long. The seeds are oval and 12-15 mm long by 8 mm wide. They are covered with a white pulpy coat. The fruit pulp is edible.
Evergreen forests at elevations up to 600 metres. A mid-canopy tree, growing on hillsides and ridges in undisturbed to slightly disturbed mixed dipterocarp and sub-montane forests at elevations up to 1,500 metres.
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A tropical plant. In Indonesia it grows up to 1300 m altitude.
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