Tree up to 42 m high, dbh up to 150 cm, with buttresses; bark dark to grey brown, peeling off with papery flakes. Twigs terete, 4-9 mm thick. Leaves (4-)5-8(-10)-jugate; petiole 3.6-9 cm by 1.5-2.5 mm, subterete with an upwards widening groove above, grading into the rachis; petiolules 2-5 mm long, broadly hollowed above. Leaflets lowermost small, as little as 2.5 by 1 cm, relatively broad (sometimes less than twice as long as broad), ovate and strongly oblique, the upper ones up to 23 by 8 cm, relatively narrower (up to 3.5 times as long as broad), more elliptic, hardly oblique, but often ± falcate; base with a broadly rounded acroscopic and an often shorter narrowly acute basiscopic half in the more oblique leaflets to obtuse and nearly symmetrical in the less oblique leaflets; apex hardly to distinctly acuminate, the acumen short, broad, and rounded; midrib flat to slightly raised above, distinct below; nerves rather spaced, oblique-patent, mostly looped and joined (or free); intersecondary nerves many, distinct; reticulation rather lax, in thick leaflets indistinct above. Inflorescences up to 20 cm long, widely and especially the female ones sparsely branched; bracts and bracteoles broad-triangular scales; pedicels c. 2 mm long. Sepals 1.25-1.5 mm long, green, hairy inside. Disc orange, short-hairy. Stamens: filaments 3-4 mm long, white; anthers 0.75 mm long, yellow; staminodes in female flowers strongly reduced. Pistil c. 2.25 mm high, yellow-green; ovary ellipsoid, tapering into a columnar style; pistil-lode in male flowers well developed. Fruits ovoid, acute at apex, to subglobular, 10-20 by 7-10 mm, red; calyx persistent in fruit, reflexed.
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A medium sized tree. It grows 10-25 m high. It has a dense spreading crown. The young branches secrete resin and are scaly. The bark is smooth, light grey and slightly flaky. The leaves are alternate, smooth and divided along their length. The whole leaf is 15-35 cm long divided into 5-10-20 alternate leaflets. The leaflets are 3-10 cm long by 1.5-5 cm wide. The leaflets are curved and are not the same shape on either side of the midrib. They are shiny dark green on top and paler underneath. The leaflets have a pointed tip. The leaf stalk is 4.5-6.5 cm long. The flowers are very small and greenish-white. They are 0.2-0.5 cm across and many flowers occur together in a large panicle which is 10-30 cm long. These are produced in the axils of the upper leaves. Male and female flowers occur on separate branches. The fruit is smooth and oval and fleshy. It has one stone inside. The fruit is 1-1.5 cm long by 0.6-0.8 cm wide. It is orange red when ripe with a pointed tip. There are one or two seeds inside. The seeds are 8 mm long by 12 mm wide.
Tree to 32 m high. Young parts resinous; branchlets scurfy, resinous towards apex, lenticellate. Leaf rachis 12–19 cm long; leaflets 10–20, obliquely ovate or ovate-oblong, subfalcate, attenuate or shortly acuminate or caudate, truncate, rounded or subacute and oblique at base, 3–9.5 cm long, 1.5–5 cm wide, shiny above, pellucid-punctate; midrib excentric; lateral veins looping away from margins; petiolules 3–4 mm long; petiole 4.5–6.5 cm long. Panicles 10–28 cm long; bracts small; pedicels 1.5–4 mm long. Calyx 1.5–2.5 mm long, 2–3 mm wide, coriaceous, gland-dotted, glabrous. Filaments 3–5 mm long. Fruit red, ovoid, acute, 1–1.5 cm long, 0.6–0.8 cm diam.
A tropical and subtropical plant. Trees grow naturally in coastal monsoon vine forest. They are often on coastal sand dunes and near freshwater streams. Plants need to be in well drained soil. It needs plenty of moisture. Plants are sensitive to cold. In Indonesia is grow in forests up to 1200 m altitude.
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Grows in monsoon forest and at the edge of rainforest and mangroves.
A canopy tree in rain forests.
Uses Good timber wood; also used for matches and match boxes. Bark used in soap and as a fish poison. See: Boerl. & Koord. Teysmannia 7 1896 485 Japing & Oey Djoeng Sen Tectona 29 1936 421 f. 29 Quis. Philipp. J. Sc. 77 1948 161 Heyne Nutt. Pl. Indon. ed. 3 1950 1001 W.H. Brown Useful Pl. Philipp. 2 1950 361 f. 176 .
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The fruit are eaten raw. (It is the layer around the seed-or aril, which is eaten)
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