Tree up to 20—30(—35) m high and 40—90 cm ø, very rarely up to 130—150 cm ø. Buttresses occasionally present, 1—2 m high, 1 m wide. Bark blackish brown, lenticellate, longitudinally cracked. Leaves chartaceous to subcoriaceous, elliptic-lanceolate or lanceolate, 6½-24½ by 2½-6 cm; base cuneate to attenuate; apex acuminate; nerves 10—20 pairs, slightly elevated beneath, distinct above; veins reticulate, faint; petiole 1½-3½(-6—8) cm, convex beneath, bisulcate or fiat above. Panicles terminal and sometimes also in the uppermost leaf axils, pyramidal, 10—40 cm long, puberulous, rarely glabrescent; lateral branches up to 20 cm, laxly flowered; floral bracts ovate to lanceolate, 1½-2 mm long; pedicels 1½-2½ mm. Flowers greenish white. Calyx 5-lobed, lobes ovate, 2-2½ mm long, sparsely puberulous outside, rarely glabrescent. Petals 5, lanceolate, 3½-5½ by 1-l½ mm; ridges 3(—5), c. ½ the length of the petals, confluent at the basal 1-1½ mm. Disk pulvinate and concave above, ⅔-1 mm high, 1½-2 mm wide, 5-lobed, papillose. Stamens 5, 1 fertile, 2-4 mm; filaments free; anthers ovoid, c. ⅔ mm; staminodes up to ⅔ mm. Ovary subglobose, 1¼—l¾mm 0; style excentric, 1—¾ mm. Sterile pistil in ♂ c. ⅓ mm. Drupe (fresh or dried) obliquely subglobose, 5—10 by 4—8 cm, flesh thin, with one big stone. Seed not labyrinthine.
In lowland primary forest, sometimes also in secondary forest, rarely on coral limestone, usually up to 400 m, occasionally at 1000—1500 m. Fl. fr. Febr.-Nov.
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