Tree up to 30 m high, 60 cm ø. Buttresses up to 1¼ m high, ⅔ m wide, 10 cm thick. Bark bright grey or brownish, scaly. Leaves coriaceous, elliptic, broadly elliptic, or obovate, 5-14 by 2½-8 cm; glabrous; base cuneate or attenuate; apex obtuse, sometimes slightly acute; nerves 9-11 pairs, slightly elevated beneath, distinct above; veins reticulate, distinct beneath, sometimes faint above; petiole ¾-1½ cm. Panicles up to 20 cm long, glabrous; pedicels 8-16 mm, not articulated. Flower-buds lanceolate, c. 6 by 2 mm., acuminate. Calyx c. 6 mm long, circumscissile, glabrous except hairy at the apical part on both surfaces. Petals white, valvate, linear or spathulate, 6-7 by ¾ mm, puberulous outside. Stamens 10, 3-5 mm; filaments sparsely hairy; anthers oblong, ¾ mm long. Torus ellipsoid, 1½-2 mm long. Ovary subglobose, ¾-l mm ø, glabrous; stipe l-1½ nim; style 1-1½ mm, terminal. Drupe on a centric stalk (l-l¾ cm), subglobose, 3-4 cm ø, dark brown, smooth; without wing-like, enlarged petals; embryo subglobose, 2½-3 cm ø; cotyledons free.
Lowland forest, sometimes on ultrabasic soil. Fl. Febr.-April; fr. April, Sept., Oct.
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