Small to medium-sized tree, 4-12 m; branchlets angular, their bark grey. Perular bracts thick, triangular, acute, warty, persistent, outer ones 4-6 by 3-4½ mm, inner ones narrower. Leaves elliptic-oblong, distinctly acute-, mostly falcate-acuminate, base cuneately narrowed into the sul-cate petiole 1-2 cm, 9-22 by 3-9 cm. Nerves ca 9-11 pairs, erect, curved, anastomosing near the margin, impressed above, prominent below as is the stout midrib; parenchyma with whitish-crystal dots. Panicle broadly pyramidal, 6-16 cm long, 5-25 cm broad; axis angular, primary branches bracteate. Flowers fragrant, whitish, tips of the petals slightly rosa, after flowering the whole flower distinctly rosa, flower parts long-persistent. Sepals broadly elliptic with rounded tip, after blossoming very concave, 2 outer 1¾-2½ by 1¼-2 mm, inner ones 2½-3½ by 2 mm, 3-veined. Petals obovate-oblong to elliptic, 2½-3¼ by 1½ mm long, with 1 vein. Filaments terete, white, 1½-2¼ mm long; anthers brownish, later darkbrown, acute-ovate, ⅔ mm long, lower half of the cells free. Staminodes obovate-oblong, 2½-3 mm long. Disk-glands yellowish or yellow-green. Ovary green, ca 1 mm high; style 1, sometimes obliquely inserted, little over 1 mm; stigma greenish-brown, punctiform. Receptacle developed as a flat disk between the ovary and the insertions of the sepals, connate with the bases of the petals. Fruit a nut, not fleshy, globular to broad-elliptic but variable in shape, pointed at both ends; pericarp hard, irregularly shallow-ribbed, 3-5 by 3¼-3½ cm, greyish-green to red; exocarp 2 mm diam.; endocarp woody, closely adhering, inside smooth with irregular ribs and a furrow in the apical half, purple, 2 mm thick. Testa membranous, prominently lengthwise veined. Embryo hard, oblique, bony, with a longitudinal groove between the cotyledons, 2½ × 2½ × 2 cm.
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A medium sized tree, up to 20 m high. The trunk can be straight or crooked. The bark is grey, with many long cracks along it. The twigs vary between angular and round, in cross section. The leaf stalk is 1-5 cm long and with a groove along it. The leaf is 9-26 cm long by 3-13 cm wide. (Leaves tend to be larger in the Solomon Islands than in Papua New Guinea or Australia.) The leaf is pointed at the tip, and rounded near the base. The 8-11 pairs of veins curve, and join near the leaf edge. The veins have a dent inwards on the top of the leaf surface, and are raised, underneath the leaf. The leaf is thin textured but firm. The flower cluster is branched and about 20 cm long. The individual flower stalks are about 2-4 mm long. The flowers have a scent, and are whitish or occasionally slightly pink or greenish. It produces clusters of fruit on the ends of the branches. The fruit are 10-12 cm x 8-10 cm, and have one large seed inside. The fruit is green when young, and pink or cream when ripe. The fruit is shaped like a mango. This is an attractive tree, especially when fruiting. It is a good shade tree.
Tree to 25 m. Leaves obovate or elliptic, entire, shortly acuminate, the apex obtuse or acute; lamina mostly 8-15 cm long and 4-7 cm wide; base cuneate or slightly decurrent; lateral veins 6-9 pairs. Cataphylls broadly ovate, acuminate, 1.5-2.2 mm long. Inflorescence 4-10 cm long; pedicels 2-4 mm long. Sepals ovate, c. 2.5 mm long. Petals shortly spathulate, entire, 2.4-2.7 mm long, 1.4-1.8 mm wide. Staminodes oblong-spathulate, irregularly lobed, 1.5-2 mm long, 0.6-0.8 mm wide. Drupe globose or depressed-globose, 3.5-4.5 cm long, 4-5 cm diam.; exocarp thin, red or pink-red; mesocarp 5-10 mm thick; endocarp woody, c. 2 mm thick.
A tropical plant. Trees occur in well drained rainforest, up to 1800 m altitude, in the tropics near the equator. They have been recorded up to 2750 m above sea level. They occur naturally in Australia, Papua New Guinea, and the Solomon Islands. In the Solomon Islands trees have been recorded up to 600 m above sea level.
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Rainforest substage tree, apparently not rare in New Guinea, up to 1800 m, fl.--10, fr. June-Oct.
Occurs in mesophyll and notophyll vine forest usually below 800 m.
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