Leaves: petiole 2–9 cm long, tomentulose to glabrescent; lamina usually lanceolate to elliptic, 10–37 cm long, 4–17 cm wide, glabrous above, pubescent to glabrescent below. Inflorescences axillary and terminal, sometimes ramiflorous, to 40 cm long, with subspicate lateral branches to 12 cm long, blackish-brown-tomentose. Male flowers subsessile in compact clusters; sepals c. 21–27, greenish, externally densely pilose, with innermost 3 sepals broadly elliptic and 3 mm long; petals 1 mm long; stamens 2 mm long. Female flowers subsessile; carpels 1 mm long. Drupes subobovoid, 15–18 mm long, drying with prominent dorsal ridge, red, minutely puberulous; stipe 2–5 mm long.
Grows in rainforest and complex mesophyll vine forest, in soil derived from basalt and on granite, to 760 m alt.
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