Dichapetalum gelonioides (Roxb.) Engl.

Dioecious tree up to 20-25 m by 20 cm, or (climbing or creeping) shrub or liana. Branchlets scattered shortly pubescent, soon glabrescent, grey to purple-brown, usually with many small, orbicular, white lenticels. Leaves rather variable in size and shape, elliptic, 6-16 by 2-6 cm, (herbaceous to) thin-chartaceous, (sub)glabrous (only in subsp. pilosum slightly more hairy); glands few, usually only beneath near the base; base slightly oblique, acute (to rounded), usually de-current; apex gradually long-acuminate, acumen blunt to acute, often mucronulate; nervation often slightly sunken above, distinctly prominent beneath; nerves 6-10 pairs, distant, angle acute* strongly curved, more or less distinctly interarching near the margin. Inflorescences axillary (sometimes some to many on axillary shoots with early caducous leaves and then pseudo-paniculate), glomerulous, ¾-1 cm (rarely more lax and 1½-2 cm long), c. 7-10-flowered, minutely pubescent. Flowers 2.5-3 mm. Petals broadly spathulate, slightly emarginate (up to 1/4 of their length) to nearly entire. Disk-lobes 1/4-3/4 mm, rounded to cordate, glabrous to minutely pubescent. Ovary in female flowers densely fulvous-velvety pubescent, 2-celled (very rarely 3-celled), in ♂ flowers densely white woolly pubescent; style 1, more or less deeply cleft. Fruits usually 1 (in subsp. pilosum often 5-6, glomerulous), 1(-2)-lobed, lobes bean-shaped, 1-1.5 cm long, usually densely shortly fulvous-tomentose, suture broad very distinct; stone tuberculate.

In primary and secondary forests at low to medium altitudes (up to 1500 m). Fl. and fr. probably Jan.-Dec.