Large shrub or small tree up to 10 m high, sometimes with branched stilt-roots up to 1 m high. Bark pinkish brown, rather smooth. Leaves coriaceous, elliptic-oblong, narrowly elliptic, or oblanceolate, 12-32 by 5-8 cm, glabrous; base cuneate; apex acuminate; nerves 16-32 pairs, slightly elevated on both surfaces; veins reticulate, distinct below, rather faint above; petiole (0-)⅓-l cm. Panicles 5—12 cm long, puberulous; pedicels l/2-l mm, articulated. Flower-buds ovoid-oblong or ellipsoid, 2 by 1-1½ mm, obtuse. Calyx 2 mm long, puberulous outside. Petals white or pink at edges, Imbricate or contorted, oblanceolate or elliptic-oblong, 7-9 by 2-3 mm, glabrous; the central part of the basal 1½-2 mm adnate to the torus. Stamens 5, 4-5 mm; filaments glabrous; anthers oblong, c. 1 mm long. Torus cylindric, 1ll2-2 mm long. Ovary subglobose, 1-1½ mm ø, glabrous; stipe c. ½ mm; style excentric, c. 3 mm. Drupe on a centric stalk (c. ½ cm), 4½-7½ cm ø, pale brown, with irregularly tuberculate ridges especially towards the base; without enlarged petals; embryo sub-globose, 4-7 cm Ø; cotyledons free.
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A tree. It grows 7 m tall. It is smaller than Gluta renghas. It has stilt roots. The bark is smooth and brown. The leaves are 19 cm long. The flowers are white. The fruit are round and pale brown. They are 7.5 cm across.
Common along edges of tidal rivers on submerged mud-banks in the freshwater or slightly brackish zone; standing in the water, with submerged trunk except at low tide, associated with Barringtonia conoidea and Pandanus helicopus, a most characteristic bush in the tidal reaches of the river above the Nypa palm stands ( CORNER Ways. Trees 1940 118 ). Fl. fr. Jan.-Dec.
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Common along edges of tidal rivers; submerged mud banks in fresh or slightly brackish water; standing in water with trunk submerged trunk, except at low tide, associated with Barringtonia conoidea and Pandanus helicopus.
A tropical plant. It grows on the water's edge along rivers where the water is fresh.
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