Tree, 5-10(-30) m, up to 20 cm Ø; bark smooth, mottled grey-brown. Branchlets short-pubescent to tomentulose distally, glabrate below, pith hollow. Leaves elliptic to oblong-, rarely subovate-elliptic, apex generally shortly, rather abruptly and often obliquely acuminate, base cuneate, rarely almost rounded, stiff-chartaceous or subcoria-ceous, greyish-green to pale olivaceous-brownish in the dry state, early glabrescent above, ± persistently covered with numerous short hairs and rather soft to the touch all over beneath, finally partly glabrescent there, 15-25 by (5-)6-11.5 cm, nerves 5-7(-8) curved-ascending and beneath somewhat prominent pairs, transverse veins subparallel to and distant from each other, slightly raised beneath, reticulation obsolete; petiole deeply grooved above, glabrescent, 10-12 by 2(-3) mm. ♂ Inflorescences consisting of 2 or 3 short-branched 2-5-flowered cymes on top of a common peduncle (3-6 by 1 mm), all over densely covered with appressed ferrugineous hairs, the lower part of the petals excepted. Calyx cup-shaped, green, 4(-5)-denticulate, 2 by 3 mm. Petals 4 or 5 (rarely-7), coherent in the lower ⅔, though partially free from each other by 1 or 2 slits, thickish, greenish to white, 5-7 mm. Stamens 5(-7), much exserted; filaments densely hairy both in front below the anther cells (1 mm) and dorsally on connective. Rudiment of ovary with erect hairs on top. ♀ Inflorescences 2-3-flowered, together on 3-5 mm long peduncle. Calyx and petals (7-10 mm) as in ♂ flowers. Staminodes slightly exserted. Ovary ± laxly appressedly hairy. Drupe obovoid-oblongoid, strongly beaked in immature, much less so in mature state, yellow, 3.5-4 by c. 1.5 cm, somewhat hairy distally only; endocarp rather thin, with c. 8 obtuse longitudinal ridges.
Primary and secondary forest, also on flooded plains, 25-450 m, locally common in undergrowth.
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