Treelet or slender tree, 5-12-(20) m, trunk rarely up to 25 cm Ø, with greyish bark. Branchlets slender, glabrous. Leaves elliptic to elliptic-ovate, apex obtusely apiculate, often plicate, base broadly cuneate to rounded, coriaceous, glabrous, shining above, paler and rather dull beneath in dry specimens, (7-)10-18 by (4-)5-8(-10) cm, midrib very slightly grooved above, strongly raised beneath, nerves 4-5(-6) rather steeply curved-ascending pairs, the lower 2(-3) ones closer together than the upper ones and often ± bending down-wards to the petiole in a narrow angle, a little prominent above, more distinctly so beneath, reticulation of veins and yeinlets rather dense and markedly raised on both faces especially above; petiole 12-20 by c. 2 mm. Racemes spiciform, solitary or several in a fascicle, from foliate and/or defoliate axils, slender, few-to many-flowered, laxly appressedly hairy, (1-)2(-4) cm. Pedicels 0.5-1.5(-2) mm. Calyx lobes ovate, dorsal-ly ± glabrous, ciliate, 1.5-2(-2.5) mm. Petals (4-)5 mm, whitish, or light green, united to a tube for ¾ their length, lobes suberect. ♂ Flowers: Filaments 3 mm; anther cells elliptic, 1.2-1.5 mm. Rudiment of ovary cylindric, sparsely hairy, on a thick broadened glabrous disk. ♀ Flowers: Anther cells rudimentary. Ovary ovoid-subconical, densely short-hairy, on a thick glabrous cushion-like disk; style hardly 1 mm; stigma peltate, oblique, attenuate towards one side. Drupe subovoid-oblongoid, or generally ellipsoid, apex obtuse or usually attenuate-apiculate, 2.5-3.5(-4.5) by 1.5-2(-2.5) cm, with numerous longitudinal slightly raised lines or ribs, purplish-blackish when ripe; exocarp spon-gious-fibrous, 1-1.5 mm; endocarp thin-woody, with numerous longitudinal low ribs which but slightly appear as such through the exocarp, and with may be one shallow deeper lateral groove. Seed white, hard.
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Shrubs. Branchlets and young branches curved, terete; branchlets gray; young branches light brown or black when dry. Petiole 1-2 cm; leaf blade light yellow-green when dry, abaxially not shiny, adaxially shiny, orbicular or broadly ovate, 8-14 × 5-7 cm, leathery, midvein and lateral veins abaxially prominent, reticulate veins inconspicuous abaxially, conspicuously prominent adaxially, base rounded to cuneate, usually unequal, margin entire. Racemes short, 1-2 cm, few flowered. Flowers bisexual, without or with short pedicel, pubescent; bractlets broadly triangular, ca. 1.5 mm. Sepals 6, unequal, orbicular, ca. 2 × 2 mm, ciliate. Corolla cylindric, ca. 5 mm; tube ca. 3 mm, apically 5-lobed; lobes triangular, ca. 2 mm, base ca. 2 mm wide, valvate, apex acute, thickened, incurved. Stamens 5, inserted at corolla throat; anthers sessile, ovoid-triangular, ca. 0.8 × 0.8 mm. Ovary conical, ca. 1.5 × 1.5 mm, minutely hispid, with a very short stalk; stigma ca. 0.2 mm. Drupe black, ovoid to ellipsoid, 2.5-3.5 × 2-2.2 cm, glabrous; exocarp thin, fragile. Fl. and fr. unknown.
Primary littoral or lowland (Dipterocarp) forest, also secondary growth, from sea-level up to c. 750 m, on clayey, sometimes volcanic soil.
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