Medium-sized tree, 10-30 m, sometimes bushy. Trunk with grey bark; branchlets slender, appressed rusty-pubescent or mostly glabrous. Leaves lanceolate-oblong or oblong, rather variable in shape, broadly cuneate to nearly rounded at the base, gradually long-attenuate towards the apex and +-shortly acuminate, (sub)coriaceous, glabrous, remotely dentate or throny-serrate, but sometimes nearly entire; nerves 7(-10) pairs, prominent on both sides, veins manifestly reticulate; petiole (0.6-)l-1½ cm. Cymes corymbose, few-flowered, consisting of a c. 1.5 cm long peduncle and 2-3 branches 0.5-1 cm long. Pedicels 5-6 mm, appressed rusty-pilose. Sepals subrotun-date, 4 mm. Petals oblong, somewhat shorter than the sepals, truncate (erose) and ciliate at the apex, nearly glabrous outside, with a subquadrangular scale inside half their length. ♂ Flowers: stamens 14-20, white; filaments short, pubescent; anthers ovate-oblong. ♀ Flowers: staminodes c. 15. Ovary ovoid, rusty-tomentose, with 4 radiate, truncate stigmas. Fruit globose, rusty to blackish-brownish velvety, 4-5(-8) cm diam.; pericarp c. 1.5 mm. Seeds c. 10-15, ovoid, 1.3-1.5(-2.2) by 1-1.2(-1.5) cm.
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A tree. It grows 16-22 m tall. The leaves are alternate and oval and taper to the tip. The fruit are round and brown.
On quartzite and shale beach, or granite boulder slopes, mostly on rocky limestone hills, often very abundant, from sea-level (Barringtonia-formation) to 100 m.
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It is a tropical plant. It grows in limestone areas. It grows in dry evergreen forest. It grows in the coastal fringe and the inland forests.
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