Tree up to 30 m high and 1 m ø. Buttresses up to 2 m high. Bark greenish grey or reddish brown, smooth or slightly surface cracked. Branchlets light brown, pubescent. Leaves subcoriaceous, oblanceolate, or elliptic to narrowly elliptic, 17½-29 by 4½-1½ cm, glabrous and shining on both surfaces, not papillose on the lower surface; base cuneate to attenuate; apex shortly acuminate to acuminate; nerves 12-22 pairs, veins reticulate-scalariform, distinct below, faint above; petiole 2½-6¾ cm, thickened and puberulous at the lower ½-1½ cm. Panicles terminal, up to 32 cm long, puberulous; bracts lanceolate to linear, 1-4 mm, floral bracts triangular, ⅓-¾ mm long. Flowers white or yellow, subsessile, 2-2½ mm long. Hypanthium ½-l mm long. Calyx lobes triangular, ½-⅔ mm long. Petals oblong, elliptic, lanceolate, or oblanceolate, 1½-2½ by ¾-1¼ mm, flat. Stamens 1¼-2 mm; filaments brown, free; anthers ⅓ mm long. Imperfect or abortive stamens in ♀ c. 1 mm. Disk 5-(or 4-)notched. Ovary globose, c. 1 mm ø; style 1-1¼ mm; stigmas capitellate. Abortive pistil 0 in ♂, replaced by a tuft of hairs. Drupe (rather young) ellipsoid or ovoid, 2 by 1-1¼ cm, shortly hairy, or scurfy; apex acute.
Lowland forest, sometimes in seasonal swamp forest or in secondary forest, up to 300 m. Fl. May, July, Sept.-Nov.; fr. April-July, Dec.
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