Tree up to 30 m high and 90 cm Ø. Bark reddish brown, cracked. Leaves coriaceous, elliptic-or obovate-oblong, or oblanceolate, (17—)27—38 by (7-) 12-15 cm; base cuneate or attenuate; apex mucronate; nerves (14—)21—36 pairs, prominent on both surfaces; veins hardly visible; petiole convex beneath, plane above, (1½-)3½-6 cm. Panicles terminal, pyramidal, 16—57 cm long, puberulous; lateral branches up to 20 cm long; floral bracts ovate, 3-6 mm long; pedicels 1-2 mm. Flowers reddish or pink. Calyx 5-lobed, lobes broad-ovate or elliptic, 1½-2 mm long, puberulous outside. Petals 5, elliptic-or obovate-oblong, 4½-6 by 1½-2 mm, without ridges on the inner surface. Disk cylindric, stipe-like, c. ¾ mm high in ♀, obsolete on ♂. Stamens 10, 5 fertile, always one long (3-6 mm) and 4 short (2-3½ mm); filaments connate at the base; anthers broad-ovoid or-ellipsoid, ½-¾ mm; staminodes 1-2 mm. Ovary subglobose, 1½-2 mm; style excentric, 3-5 mm. Sterile pistil in ♂ c. 1 mm. Drupe (dried) ellipsoid, 9-9½ by 4½ cm. Seed not labyrinthine.
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A tree. It grows 20-30 m high. The trunk is 35 cm across. The leaves are in rings. The leaves are broadly oval and 17-38 cm long by 7-15 cm wide. The flowers are reddish. They are 4 mm across. The fruit is oval and fleshy. They are 9 cm long by 4 cm wide. The flesh is white.
A mid-canopy tree growing in undisturbed lowland mixed dipterocarp forest at elevations up to 800 metres, but usually much lower. Found also in more open secondary forest, and sometimes in freshwater swamps.
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A tropical plant. They grow in the humid tropics. It grows in lowland forests and sometimes near freshwater swamps. It grows from sea level to 800 m above sea level. It is usually lower.
Lowland primary forest, sometimes in freshwater swamp forest, occasionally in secondary forest, up to 100 m, once at c. 340 m. Fl. March-May; fr. March-Sept.
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