Tree to 30 m high. Stem usually not buttressed. Twigs angular, eventually ± glabrescent. Leaves: petiole 6–23 mm long; lamina elliptic to lanceolate to narrowly obovate, 5–15 cm long, 1.5–4.5 cm wide, glaucous and pubescent below. Inflorescence approximating or exceeding leaves. Flowers opening quite widely with tepals remaining ± erect, creamy green, perfumed. Tepals 1.1–1.5 mm long, 0.7–1 mm wide, pubescent. Outer anthers 0.5–0.8 mm long, 0.5–0.7 mm wide, pubescent; filaments 0.2–0.5 mm long. Inner anthers 0.5–0.6 mm long, 0.4–0.5 mm wide, pubescent; filaments 0.3–0.8 mm long; glands present. Staminodes 3, differentiated. Ovary 0.4–0.8 mm long, 0.5–0.6 mm wide, usually sessile, glabrous; style glabrous. Fruit ellipsoidal, 20–23 mm long, 12–13 mm wide, black to purplish black. Cotyledons cream.
Grows in rainforests, particularly mountain rainforests, in soils derived from granite; at 350–1200 m alt.
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