Tree up to 30 m high and 68 cm ø. Buttresses 2 m high, 1 m wide, 10 cm thick. Bark grey to dark brown, smooth or irregularly cracked. Branchlets brown or reddish brown, pubescent, glabrescent. Leaves coriaceous, obovate to narrowly obovate, or narrowly elliptic, (6-)22-62(-87) by (3-)6-15 (-16½) cm; glabrous and shining on both surfaces; not papillose on the lower surface; base cordate or auricled, rarely obtuse, cuneate, or truncate; apex acuminate, cuspidate, rarely obtuse; nerves (8-)25-35 pairs; veins reticulate-scalariform, distinct beneath, faint above; petiole 0-1 cm, if present, puberulous. Panicles terminal, 15-63 cm long, pubescent, glabrescent; bracts triangular, ⅓-⅔ mm long. Flowers white, sessile or subsessile, 3½-4 mm long. Hypanthium c. ⅔ mm long. Calyx lobes ovate-oblong, 1-1¾ mm long. Petals elliptic or elliptic-lanceolate, 2½-3 by 1-1½ mm, slightly longitudinally ridged inside. Stamens c. 2 mm; filaments free, brown; anthers ⅔ mm long. Disk 5-(or 4-)lobed. Abortive pistil in ♂ 0, replaced by a tuft of hairs. Ovary subglobose, 2¼ mm ø; style c. 1mm; stigmas capitellate. Imperfect or abortive stamens in ♀ 1¾ mm. Drupe depressed-globose or slightly oblong, 2-3½ by 2-2½ cm, rusty-hairy; apex obtuse or rounded.
In forest on swampy or dry lowland, rarely up to 1500 m. Fl. March-May, Sept., Dec; fr. June, Nov., Dec.
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