Tree(let) up to 30 m high and 60 cm Ø. Buttresses occasionally present, narrow, up to 1 m high, rarely stilt roots present. Bark white to grey-brown, smooth or shallowly fissured and/or papery flaky. Leaves oblanceolate to spathulate, or elliptic, 6-30(-61) by 2-8(-11) cm, up to by 14 cm on sapling; glabrous, exceptionally pubescent on the lower surface; base decurrent towards near the insertion and ending abruptly (forming amplexi-caul auricles on sapling leaves); apex obtuse, sometimes emarginate, very rarely acute or shortly acuminate; nerves 8—21 pairs, veins reticulate or reticulate-scalariform, distinct on both surfaces; petiole very short (1/5-¾ cm). Panicles 4-29 cm long, scantly branched, bracnches up to 5 cm, sometimes with rather simple, short branches and seemingly racemose; bracts triangular, c. ⅔ mm long; pedicels c. ⅓ mm. Flowers light yellow or yellowish green. Calyx lobes triangular, ⅓-¾ mm long. Petals ovate, 1⅓-2 by l-l½ mm. Stamens ⅔-2mm; staminodes in ♀ shorter and smaller. Disk 1-1⅔ mm Ø. Ovary subglobose, c. 1 mm Ø. Drupe subglobose, 12-17 by 10-15 mm, green speckled white (? never red) (CORNER, 1940) or dark green (BURKILL 2154); septum hollow.
Common to rare in lowland (peat-)swamps to mixed primary forest on well-drained soils, also in heath forest, 3-1200 m. Fl. fr. Jan.-Dec.
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Lowland areas, including fresh water swamps, peat swamps and kerangas forests to hill forests at elevations up to 600 metres.
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