Tree up to c. 30 m high. Leaves coriaceous, obovate to oblanceolate, 6-27½ by 4½-10½ cm; glabrous on both surfaces, sometimes the lower surface slightly puberulous when young, glabrescent; base decurrent; apex rounded, sometimes slightly emarginate; nerves 11-21 pairs, prominent beneath, flat above; veins reticulate, or transverse and parallel, distinct beneath, faint above; petiole 0-1 cm. Panicles 5-14(-25) cm long, puberulous; pedicels 5-7 mm, not articulated. Flower-buds ovoid or ellipsoid, 7-8 by 3½-4 mm, shortly acuminate. Calyx 7-8 mm long, circumscissile, densely puberulous outside. Petals imbricate, elliptic-oblong or ovate-oblong, 7½-9 by 2¾-3½ mm, densely puberulous outside, papillose in the lower part inside. Stamens ∾ (c. 40); filaments 3½-4 mm, hairy; anthers oblong, c. 1 mm long. Torus subglobose, c. 1½ mm ø. Ovary broadly ellipsoid, c. 1 mm long, scurfy; stipe l-1½ mm; style terminal, 3-4 mm. Drupe sessile, globose, c. 3½ cm ø, light brown, scurfy, wrinkled; enlarged, wing-like petals elliptic-lanceolate, 2½-3 by ¼-1 cm; embryo subglobose, c. 2½ cm ø; cotyledons free.
Lowland forest or on forest-edges, up to 150 m. Fl. March, Nov.; fr. April, Aug, Sept.
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