Small to high tree; bark hard, greyish or whitish, rough.. Branchlets glabrescent.. Leaf-blade ovate-or oblong-elliptic, shortly, subabruptly and obtusely acuminate, base broadly cuneate to rounded, coriaceous or subcoriaceous, glabrous except sometimes for hairs in the angles of the lateral veins with the midrib beneath (domatia), entire, undulate or coarsely crenate, 7–14 cm. long, 4–6.5 cm. wide; lateral veins 7–9 pairs, raised on both faces as is the rather dense reticulation; petiole 6–10 mm. long.. Racemes solitary from the axils of the upper leaves, 10–25 cm. long, rather densely flowered, forming together a terminal pseudopanicle when the leaves are fallen in later stages; rhachis rather slender, puberulous as are the 2–3-fascicled whitish-greenish 5(–6)-merous flowers.. Calyx-tube at anthesis 1.5–2 mm. long, narrowed downwards to a slender stipe 1–2 mm. long.. Sepals subtriangular-lanceolate, 1.5–2 mm. long, a little accrescent.. Petals oblong-spathulate, puberulous on both faces and ciliolate, (3–)6–8 mm. long in full anthesis, accrescent to 10–15 × 3–4 mm. in fruiting stage.. Filaments glabrous.. Glands hairy.. Styles 5(–6), connate into a hairy column for 1.5–2 mm., free and glabrous for ± 1 mm. distally.
Rain forests; swamp forests at low elevations; coastal savannah; riverine forests; forest edged; usually at lower elevations, sometimes ascending to 1,500 metres.
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