Trees or shrubs, 5-15 m tall, to 30 cm in diam. Bark dark gray. Branchlets usually with interrupted rings. Petiole ca. 1 cm; leaf blade oblong, obovate-oblong to oblanceolate, 5-10 × 2-3.5 cm, subleathery, midvein slightly raised adaxially, secondary veins 10-18 pairs, tertiary veins reticulate, base cuneate, margin reflexed, apex acute or obtuse. Plant dioecious; flowers solitary or in an umbel-like cyme; pedicels 3-7 mm. Male flowers: sepals suborbicular, equal, 3-5 mm; petals orange or yellowish, obovate-oblong, 7-9 mm; stamen fascicles not evident; anthers aggregated into a head, 2-celled, cells longitudinally dehiscent; pistillode absent. Female flowers: sepals and petals similar to those of males; staminode fascicles free, shorter than pistil; ovary ovoid, 8-10-loculed; style absent; stigma peltate, convex, radiately 8-10-lobed, papillate. Fruit ovoid or globose, 2-4 × 2-3.5 cm, subtended by persistent sepals at base and crowned by convex stigma. Seeds 1. Fl. Apr-May, fr. Oct-Dec.
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A tree. It grows 5 to 15 m tall. The trunk can be 15-40 cm across. The trunk is straight and round. The leaves are opposite and oblong. They are 5-10 cm long and 2-3 cm wide. The flowers are small and yellow. The fruit is a flattened round shape. They are 4.5 cm across. The pulp is sweet.
Dense or sparse forests on plains, hills, or in valleys; usually at elevations from 200-400 metres, occasionally ascending to 1,200 metres.
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A tropical plant. It grows in dense or sparse forests on plains, hills, or valleys between 200-400(-1200 m) altitude in China.
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