Tree or shrub, to 35 m tall, deciduous to sub-deciduous, glabrous; bark fissured, peeling in strips, dark brown; young shoots with interpetiolar scar continuous. Leaves sessile or with petiole up to 15 mm, 4-18 by 2-7 cm, elliptic to ovate-oblong, apex rounded to cuspidate, base subcordate or rounded to attenuate, herbaceous to chartaceous, sometimes glaucous beneath. Inflorescence a foliate panicle, often large; pedicels 1½-5 mm. Flowers homostylous. Sepals 3-6½ by 3-4½ mm. Petals dark or brownish red to brick red, pale green at base, 4-9 by 1½-4 mm. Stamen fascicles 2½-7½ mm long, with stamens ± congested, c. 120 per fascicle; anther gland absent. Staminodial fascicles (if well developed) yellow, up to 3 mm long, flattened, oblong to obovate, cucullate. Ovary 1½-3 mm long; styles 1½-3 mm. Capsule 7-10 by 3-5 mm, c. 1-3 times as long as the sepals, cylindric, with columella basal to half as long as capsule. Seeds 3-10 per loculus, 5-7½ by 1½-2 mm, oblanceolate to oblong.
An emergent tree, often in disturbed open sites in mixed dipterocarp and scrub vegetations at elevations up to 500 metres. Most commonly found on hillsides and ridges with clay to sandy soils, but also on limestone.
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