Small tree or shrub up to 10 m by 20 cm ø. Branchlets terete, light to reddish brown. Leaves chartaceous to subcoriaceous, elliptic to elliptic-lanceolate, ovate, or obovate-oblong, 4-12 by ¼-5 cm; base cuneate to attenuate; apex acuminate; margin entire; nerves 4-9 pairs; petiole 3-10 mm. Inflorescences usually in many leaf axils, 0.5-2 cm long; rachises, peduncles and pedicels with elastic threads shown on breaking. Peduncle 0-1 cm. Bracts triangular, 1-1.25 mm long. Pedicels 5-8 mm. Flowers red or purplish red. Calyx lobes triangular, 0.5-0.75 mm long. Petals ovate, 1¾-2.5 by 0.75-1 1/3 mm, short-acuminate. Disk 0.75-1.5 mm ø. Stamens very short; anthers ± triangular, cells separated by a conspicuous connective, slightly oblique when young. Ovary 0.5-1 mm long. Fruit subglobose, 2.5-3.5 cm ø, 5-sulcate, red. Seeds slightly falcate, or ± ellipsoid, sometimes slightly planoconvex, 12-15 by 7-10 mm; aril orange; hilum very long, along the whole length of the seed on the outer side.
In primary and secondary forests, in West New Guinea in lowland up to 100 m, in NE. New Guinea at 1800-1950 m.
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