Dioecious shrub or tree to 13 m high, glabrous. Leaves: lamina obovate or elliptic, mostly 6–13 cm long and 3–7 cm wide, cuneate base, crenate margin, obtuse to bluntly acuminate apex, coriaceous; secondary veins 5–7 pairs; petiole 7–11 mm long. Cymes axillary to leaves or cataphylls; pedicels 1.5–4 mm long. Calyx irregularly multilobed. Petals 3, rarely 4, ovate or subrotund, entire or lobed, 1.5–2 mm long. Disc 3-or 4-angled, 1.5–1.8 mm wide. Male flowers: stamens 3, inserted on disc margin; filaments 0.2–0.5 mm long. Female flowers: staminodes 3, rarely 4, inserted inside disc margin; ovary ovoid-conical, 3-locular; stigma entire. Fruit globular, 15–20 mm diam.; exocarp thin, black; mesocarp ± fleshy; endocarp stone-like. Seeds 1–3.
Grows in woodland, open forest, monsoon forest, drier types of rainforest, low and medium altitude vine forest and thickets.
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