Tree 6-37 m high and 8-87 cm Ø, occasionally buttressed. Leaves obovate-oblong or oblanceolate, (12-)26-45 by (4¼-)9-16¼ cm, sparsely to densely hairy beneath, sometimes on both surfaces, glabrescent; base cuneate or attenuate; apex obtuse or rounded, rarely apiculate, acute, or emargi-nate; nerves 14-20 pairs, veins reticulate-scalari-form; petiole (1½-)3-6 cm. Panicles 8½-25 cm long, hairy, glabrescent; bracts lanceolate, ¾ mm long, pubescent outside. Flowers creamish or white, sessile, articulated at the base. Calyx persistent, lobes subrotund,⅔-1 mm long. Petals ovate-oblong, 2-2½ by 1-1½ mm. Stamens 1½-1¼ mm; filaments l-1¼ mm, apically contracted and whitish; anthers ¾-l mm sagittate, lower ¼-⅓ mm sterile. Disk c, ½ mm long. Carpels 1½ mm long. Drupe brown, sublentiform, 16-21 mm ø.
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A large tree. It grows 30-39 m tall. The trunk is up to 100 cm across. The leaves are spaced along the branches in a spiral. The leaves are 26-45 cm long by 9-16 cm wide. They are green above and lighter underneath. The flowers are in a branch shoot in the axils of the leaves. They are white to cream. The fruit are 1.6-2.1 cm long. They are brown and fleshy.
In primary forest of low dry or temporarily inundated areas, up to 450 m, once at 900 m (Morobe). Fl. Jan.-Oct.; fr. Jan.-Dec.
Uses. Similar to those mentioned under B. arborescens; sometimes used also for canoes in Sepik and Gulf Distr., Papua New Guinea, but reported to be durable only for a short time (cf. ROYEN, l.c.).
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