Deciduous tree, up to 24(-45) m high and 34 cm ø, occasionally with buttresses. Bark dark rich brown, very flaky and shaggy with large elongated jagged pieces separating from below upwards and overlapping. Leaves coriaceous, elliptic or obovate, 9-17 by 3 ½-8 ½ cm; pubescent beneath especially on the midrib, nerves and veins; glabrous above except pubescent on the midrib and nerves; base cuneate; apex rounded or emarginate; nerves 11-18 pairs, prominent beneath, distinct above; veins scalariform, distinct beneath, faint above; petiole l-2½(-3½) cm. Panicles up to c. 14 cm long, appearing before leaves or accompanied by some young ones, pubescent; pedicels 9-14 mm long, articulated. Flower-buds ovoid-oblong, 11-13 by 6-7 mm, acuminate. Calyx 11-13 mm long, circumscissile, puberulous outside. Petals white, contorted, elliptic-lanceolate or lanceolate, 9-13 by 3-4 mm, puberulous outside, sparsely puberulous near the base inside. Stamens c. 60, 3-7 mm; filaments sparsely hairy; anthers oblong or broadly ellipsoid, c. ⅔ mm long. Torus subglobose, 1 ½-2 mm ø. Ovary subglobose, 1½-2 mm ø, sparsely hairy; stipe 1½-2 mm; style terminal or slightly excentric, 2¼-5 mm. Drupe on a centric stalk (c. 1½ cm), transverse-oblong, 2-2½ by 3½-4½ cm, smooth; sometimes with enlarged wing-like petals (narrowly elliptic, 1 ¼ by ¼ cm); embryo transverse-oblong, l½ by 3-4 cm; cotyledons free.
Dryland and swamp forest at low altitude, sometimes found up to 600 m. Fl. March-June; fr. May, July. CORNER observed in Trengganu the trees to shed their leaves in Oct.-Nov. and flower on the bare twigs before the new leaves unfold.
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