Treelet up to 12 m, rarely tree up to 30 m, trunk up to 18 cm Ø; bark smooth or minutely fissured, greenish-grey to dark brown. Branchlets obtus-angular, very slender, glabrescent. Leaves elliptic-oblong, subcaudate-acuminate for 5-15 mm, tip blunt, base broadly cuneate or obtuse, subcori-aceous, glabrous, paler and often yellowish-green beneath in dry specimens, 6-12 by 3-4(-5) cm, midrib slightly impressed towards the base of the lamina above, prominent beneath, nerves 4-5 irregular pairs, suberect, a little raised on both faces, reticulation of veins and veinlets dense and finely raised above, generally less so beneath; petiole c. 1 cm by 1-1.5 mm. Spikes axillary, solitary, lax-flowered; rachis slender, sparsely ap-pressedly hairy, (1-)2-5(-6) cm. Calyx lobes ovate, ciliate, 1.5 mm. Petals greenish, connate to a tube 4 by 1-1.5 mm, free and erecto-patent for the distal 1 mm. ♂ Flowers: Filaments 3 mm; anther cells 1 mm. Rudiment of ovary hairy. Disk thickish, hairy. ♀ Flowers: Petals connate to an urceolate-cylindric tube for their lower ¾, c. 4 mm. Ovary ovoid, densely short-hairy; stigma capitate. Drupe obovoid-oblongoid, obliquely obtusely subtrigonous, apex obtuse or apiculate, green to brownish, 2.5-3.5(-4) by 1.8-2.5 cm; exocarp spongious and fibrose, 2(-3) mm; endocarp 0.5 mm, 8-10-costulate lengthwise, the ribs not much showing off in the exocarp.
Primary, lowland (Dipterocarp) forest, also in old secondary forest, up to 245 m, on sandy clay, on tertiary sand or sandstone, on leached soil.
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