Tree up to 3 tall, or shrub, monoecious. Branchlets sparsely to densely white to brown puberulous. Stipules free, semi-amplexicaul, 0.2-0.5 cm long, puberulous to almost glabrous; petiole 0.2-0.6 cm long; blade subcoriaceous to chartaceous, elliptic to narrowly elliptic or obovate to narrowly obovate, (2-)4-13 x (l-)2-6 cm, apex acuminate to acute to obtuse to emarginate, base acute to obtuse, margin entire, sometimes denticulate, glabrous above, almost glabrous, appressed-puberulous, (sub)velutinous or scabrous beneath, mostly distinctly papillate; primary vein almost plane above, veins more or less prominent beneath, secondary veins 6-14 pairs, tertiary venation reticulate. Inflorescences usually bisexual, discoid to broadly turbinate to hemisphaerical, often more or less lobed, 0.3-1.2 cm in diam., subsessile or up to 2 cm long pedunculate. Staminate flowers a few to numerous, perianth 0.2-0.4 mm high, 3-4-lobed; stamen 1. Pistillate flowers 1 to several; stigmas 0.1-0.3 mm long. Infructescences (sub)globose to turbinate and ca. 1.2 cm in diam., or if containing 2 or more fruits, then more or less lobed and up to 1.6 cm in diam., at maturity reddish.
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A tall tree. It has large buttresses. The small branches have round scars where the stipules fell off. The leaves are simple and alternate. They have a pointed tip. The leaves are dark green above and paler underneath. The veins are yellow underneath. Broken leaves and twigs drip white latex. The flowers are yellow on small disk shaped heads.
Forests that are not subject to inundation at elevations from sea level to 1,000 metres. It is most commonly found in secondary forests, and sometimes in very dry or very humid terrains.
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It is a tropical plant. It grows in the lowland wet forest.
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