Shrub or medium-sized tree to 22 m; branchlets glabrous or slightly pubescent; buds glabrous or covered in appressed pubescence. Leaves opposite (or subopposite), narrowly to broadly elliptic, or ovate, thinly to firmly chartaceous, (6.5—)10—19 by (2-) 5-6(-9) cm, base broadly to narrowly cuneate or rounded, apex cuspidate obtuse, or narrowly and long-apiculate acute, margin entire or with few to many teeth, midrib prominent below, lateral veins arched-ascending, the reticulation of minor veins evi-dent; petiole narrow, to 15 mm, channelled above. Inflorescence axillary, supra-axillary, or terminal, often of 3-flowered cymes, or solitary flowers or pleiochasia, sometimes with secondary or tertiary branching to form panicles; male flowers on lower more slender branches or in separate often panicu-late inflorescences. Male flowers ovoid, 1.5-2.5 mm long, glabrous; tepals 6; stamens 4-8, the outer 4 large, the inner smaller or absent, anthers broadly triangular, obtuse, filaments short, as wide as the anthers. Female flowers globose, c. 3 mm long, gla-brous and sometimes minutely puberulous on both surfaces; tepals minute with thickened glands within the ostiole; carpels numerous, glabrous or pubescent, stigma short, obtuse. Fruiting receptacle up to 10 mm Ø, with stout prominent stipes c. 4-6 mm long. Drupes ovoid, c. 18 by 12 mm, rugulose.
Primary lowland rain-forest, montane for-est and mossy forest; understorey with Castanopsis and Araucaria. Also in secondary growth, 100-2100 m.
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