Shrubby treelet or tree, 3-20 m, up to 25 cm ø; bark smooth, light grey to creamy brown. Branchlets appressedly hairy at tips. Leaves elliptic to lanceolate-oblong, apex short-acuminate to sub-caudate (2-3 cm), tip acutish, base attenuate, thin-coriaceous, glabrous above, laxly short-hairy initially and early glabrescent beneath, dark to olivaceous-brown, dull and often minutely tubercled above, paler and usually more greenish-olivaceous beneath in dry specimens, (8-) 10-16(-18) by (3.5-)4-6(rarely-8) cm, nerves 5-6(-7) rather straight ascending pairs, raised beneath, no reticulation; petiole 1-1.5 cm by c. 2 mm. ♂ Inflorescences consisting of 2 or 3(-4) few-to many-flowered cymes, together on a rather stoutish peduncle (1-2 cm by 1 mm), fulvous-puberulous. Calyx widely cup-shaped, subentire, mostly laxly hairy, 1-1.5 mm. Petals 5, remaining connate to a subcampanulate tube for their lower ¾ part, greenish-whitish, glabrous (maybe with a few hairs at apex), (3-)4-5 mm. Stamens 5, exserted for 1-2 mm; filaments set with few to numerous longish hairs ventrally below the anther cells, much less or not so dorsally at connective. Rudiment of ovary glabrous. ♀ Inflorescences with 3 or 4 one-flowered branches (3-6 mm) on top of a common peduncle (c. 1 cm). Calyx and petals as in ♂ flowers. Staminodes 5, laxly or not hairy. Ovary glabrous. Drupe subelliptic-oblongoid, slightly asymmetrical, ± obtuse at both ends, base sometimes slightly (or unilaterally) swollen, pale yellowish green, sometimes with reddish or orange tinge, 2-2.5(rarely-3.2) by (0.9-)1-1.2(-1.5) cm, ribs of endocarp marked and down to or almost to the very base.
Primary lowland and montane, also swampy, sometimes secondary or devastated forest, usually in understorey, locally not rare, from sea-level up to 1675 m.
Uses. Wood creamy to whitish, rays prominent, no use known, apparently due to its small dimensions.
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