Young stems and petioles yellow-puberulous, sometimes tomentulose or with a yellow-hispid indumentum also present. Leaves: petiole 4–17 cm long; lamina broadly ovate to subreniform, 7–26 cm long and wide, cordate to rounded at base, rounded or obtuse at apex, often apiculate, glaucous and subglabrous to tomentulose below. Inflorescences 2–9 cm long, puberulous. Male flowers green to white; sepals elliptic, 2 mm long, tomentose, inner 3 broader; petals scarcely 1 mm long; stamens 1 mm long. Female flowers: staminodes 1 mm long; carpels 1 mm long, pilose. Drupe dark blue, glabrous or slightly pubescent; endocarp 9–11 mm long and wide, 4 mm thick, with a thin, dorsal wing 2 mm wide, and lateral, fimbriate, curved crests.
Grows in rainforest, microphyll vine forest and scrub, on basalt, loams or sandstone, to 1000 m alt.
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