Tree to 18 m high, dioecious; exudate yellow. Twigs flattened or terete. Leaves glabrous; petiole 5–12 mm long, 1.5–2 mm wide, shallowly channelled on younger growth and dried specimens; lamina discolorous, thickly coriaceous (rigidly), obovate or elliptic, 2.5–8 (–12.5) cm long, 1.5–4 (–6.3) cm wide, base attenuate or cuneate, margin recurved, apex acute, obtuse or emarginate; primary vein ±flush on upperside but may be raised near base on dry specimens; secondary veins prominently or slightly raised below, slightly raised to flush above, 12–35 pairs, angle of divergence from primary vein 65–80o, forming loops 0.3–1.2 (–4) mm from margin; submarginal veins on lamina underside 0.5–1 mm from the margin. Inflorescences terminal, axes 15–25 mm long. Flowers 15–25 mm diam.; sepals 4, orbicular; petals 4, elliptic, 9–10 mm long; stamens in 4 stout phalanges, adnate to petals, pistillode present in male flower, undeveloped ovary ovoid; style 2–3 mm long (becoming wrinkled), glabrous. Fruit a fleshy berry, depressed globose, apex rounded, 22–45 mm long, 27–50 mm wide, dark red to blackish; fruiting calyx lobes 4, 4–5 mm long.
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A tall shrub. It grows 4-8 m high and spreads 1-3 m wide. It has a dense crown. The bark is dark. The young shoots are square in cross section. The leaves are 3-7 cm long by 1.5-3 cm wide. They are oval and dark green. They are thick and fleshy. The leaf stalks are reddish. They are 0.5-1 cm long. The flowers occur in a dense cluster in the axils of leaves. The flowers are 6 mm across. They are yellow. The fruit is a berry about 5 cm across. It is round and flattened. It is pale green. The fruit is edible.
Grows in soils derived from granite, in rainforest (simple notophyll vineforest, complex notophyll vineforest and simple microphyll vine-fern thicket).
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A tropical plant. It occur in NE Queensland in Australia. It grows on high peaks. It grows between 660-1500 m altitude.
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