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A large tree. It grows 9-25 m tall and can reach 45 m. The trunk is often crooked but it can be 50-100 cm across. The tree has a dark heavy crown. The bark is light brown and smooth. It flakes off in large sheets. The leaves are long and oval. They are 8-10 cm long. The tip is blunt or slightly pointed. The leaf stalk is about 1 cm long and has a channel on the upper surface. The flowers are male and female on separate trees. The flowers are small and crowded on sprays in the axils of the leaves. They are 2-10 cm long and pink-brown. The fruit are purple brown and soft and oval. They are 0.5-2.5 cm long with red juice.
Fertile stamens 9, glabrous, arranged in 3 whorls; stamens of the first and the second (outer) whorls 0.5–0.8 x 0.5–1.0 mm, sessile or subsessile, hairy at the base with anthers dehiscing introrsely; stamens of the third whorl with short hairy filaments, anthers dehiscing laterally to extrorsely with 2 reniform glandular appendages attached to the receptacle near the base of the filaments; staminodes 3, in a fourth whorl, c. 0.5 mm long, lanceolate-triangular, subsessile, pubescent.
Leaves subcoriaceous or coriaceous, glabrous, drying dull brown above, paler beneath; petiole, 0.6–1.2 cm long; lamina 6.0–21.5 x 2.5–8.0 cm, oblong-elliptic to elliptic or obovate, obtuse or shortly acuminate at the apex, cuneate to rounded at the base; midrib flat above, strongly prominent below, lateral nerves in 8–14 pairs, tertiary nerves forming a fine reticulum visible on both surfaces but prominent below.
Flowers reddish or greenish-brown, 1.5–2.5 mm long and 3–4 mm in diameter at anthesis; pedicels up to 1.5 mm long; receptacle ± two-thirds the length of the flower, cup-shaped, puberulous within; tepals ± one-third the length of the flower, rounded-ovate, obtuse at the incurved apex, puberulous inside and outside.
A shrub or small tree up to 12(15) m high; bole 20–30 cm in diameter; bark greyish, rough; young branches brownish, drying blackish, angular, smooth, puberulous to glabrous; buds fulvous appressed-pubescent.
Inflorescence a terminal or axillary panicle of cymes 3–9 cm long, many-flowered, laxly much-branched, rufous-pubescent or greyish-puberulous all over; peduncle 0.5–2.0 cm long.
Ovary c. 0.7 mm long, ovoid, glabrous, immersed in the receptacle; style c. 0.7 mm long with a pointed stigma.
Drupe pinkish or purplish, ellipsoid or ovoid, mature ovary not enveloped by the receptacle.
Embryo axis vertical.
