Tree up to 15-30(-45) m by 30-50 cm, but very often rather small, and occasionally shrubby; 1-2 m high specimens have been found with flowers and fruit. Bark transversely fissured, grey to blackish; young branches hollow, brown coloured, sometimes pubescent; nodes it swollen. Leaves variable in shape (ovate, ovate-oblong, elliptic-oblong, obovate oblong, or lanceolate), 4.5-20 by 1.5-9 cm, bluntly or shortly acuminate to acute, acute rarely obtuse at the base, usually glabrous, rarely pubescent beneath or only on the nerves and veinlets, sometimes lepidote on both surfaces, shining and dark brown when dry; nerves 5-9 pairs, ascending along the margins, veinlets prominent beneath, flat to slightly prominent above; petiole 0.5-1 cm. Stipules 1.5 cm long, sometimes pubescent. Bracteoles sometimes pubescent and condensed into short, tubercular glomerules. Flowers greenish-white, few to 16, subsessile to 5 mm pedicelled, bisexual, but obviously occasionally male by abortion. Calyx lobes 4-5, ovate, 1.5-2.5 by 1.5-3 mm, with a tuft of hairs at the apex. Petals 2-2.5 by 0.75 mm. Disk cup-shaped or nearly flat, crenulate to 8-10-lobed. Stamens 8-10, attached on the margin of the disk or just beneath it; filaments incurved, 1-1.5 mm; anthers subglobose to ovoid, obtuse or slightly apiculate. Ovary ovoid, sometimes abortive; style columnar, short, up to 2 mm; stigma discoid and 4-8-lobed or slender with spreading lobes. Berries red, then shiny black, pulpy, usually globose and c. 3 mm diam., rarely oblong and 5-7 by 3-5 mm, calyx lobes erect or completely reflexed. Seeds ellipsoid, 1.5 by 0.5 mm, areolate.
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A tree. It grows 3 meters high. The trunk is 10 cm across. It can grow 44 m tall and be 80 cm across the trunk. The bark is rough and white. The leaves are opposite and simple. The flowers are 3 mm across and yellowish white. They are in bundles in the axils of leaves. The fruit is black and 3 mm across. Fruit are edible. The wood is used for fish traps.
Marshy places, swamps, particularly along creeks in tall rain-forests, slopes of partially open virgin forests, and very common in secondary forests, from the lowland up to 2250 m.It clearly avoids regions subject to a seasonal climate as it is absent from Central Java to Timor; in Java it is confined to the Res. of Bantam, Bogor, and Preanger, one specimen being found in an everwet forest in S. Banjumas.Hosokawa found G. axillaris common in the mossy hill forest of the Micronesian islands Ponape and Kusaie together with Alsophila where it produces aerial roots from the boughs of the crowns ( Hosokawa Mem. Fac. Sc. Kyushu Univ. E 1 1952 65-82 )
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A tropical plant. It can grow up to 2,200 m above sea level. It grows in mangroves.
Uses. The brownish-white timber is of little use and not durable, it is occasionally used under roof, further for blades of oars, and sometimes for rafters and house-posts.
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