Unarmed, slender tree, 5-10(-25) m high, rarely a shrub, tall specimens sometimes buttressed; branches mottled-brown and green, the young ones including the tips entirely glabrous and often shining (vernicose), striate, brownish; lenticels rather sparse, pallid, oblong-elliptic; bark thin, brown. Leaves ovate-oblong, rarely ovate-elliptic or lanceolate-ovate, gradually acuminate, broadly attenuate to nearly rotundate at the base, shining specially above, coriaceous to subcoriaceous, coarsely crenate to subentire, entirely glabrous, (7-) 12-20 by (3-)5-7(-9) cm; midrib little prominent above, distinctly so beneath, 2 pairs of lateral nerves rising from or near the base, 3-4 pairs ascending from the midrib, all distinctly prominent beneath, veins numerous, transverse and slightly prominent as are the rather dense reticulations; petiole rather stout, 1.5-2 mm, rugose, 0.6-1 cm. Racemes abbreviate, few-flowered, shortly, laxly, yellowish-pubescent. Pedicels 4-6 mm. Sepals 4-5, ovate, subacute, outside laxly, inside densely pilose. Disk shortly 4-5-lobed. Stamens c. 15 (the anthers sometimes not well developed); filaments normally c. 2.5 mm, glabrous. Ovary ovoid; styles 4-5, radiate, 1 mm long and connate at the base, forming a very short column. Fruit depressed-globose, c. 1.5-2 cm diam., first pale green, dark red when ripe or dry, mostly surrounded at the base by the ± persistent sepals and stamens or their rests, crowned by 4-5 short, radiate styles and not rarely a little apiculate giving the impression of the presence of a short style-column.
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A large tree. It grows 15-30 m high. The trunk is straight and 25 cm across. Leaves are alternate. The leaves are simple and 12-21 cm long by 50-70 cm wide. Male and female flowers are separate on the same plant. The fruit are about 2 cm long and dark red.
Primary or secondary rain-forest on level or hilly moist ground and clayey soil, scattered, at low altitude, up to 1200 m.
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A tropical plant. It grows in the drier lowland areas.
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