Tree up to 25 m high and 30 cm ø. Bark brownish or purplish, smooth. Branchlets brown to dark brown, pubescent. Leaves subcoriaceous or coriaceous, elliptic, elliptic-oblong, or obovate-oblong, sometimes narrowly lanceolate, 9-30(-42) by 4—14½(—17) cm, glabrous above except the pubescent midrib, pubescent beneath; papillae distinct beneath; base cuneate; apex obtuse, mucronate, sometimes emarginate; nerves 14-25 pairs, veins reticulate-scalariform, elevated beneath, rather faint above; petiole (the lower half slightly thickened) 1½-3 cm, puberulous. Panicles terminal and sometimes also in the upper leaf axils, up to 33 cm long, tomentose; bracts linear, up to 15 mm long; floral bracts triangular, ¾-1 mm long. Flowers subsessile, whitish grey, (5-)7-9(-12) mm long. Hypanthium (1½-)3½-5 mm long. Calyx lobes triangular or ovate-oblong, 1½-3 mm long. Petals ovate-bolong or lanceolate, 3½-5 by 1¼-1½ mm. Stamens2-2¼ mm; filaments brown, the lower ¾-1½ mm united laterally with the petals; anthers 1-1¼ mm long. Imperfect or abortive stamens in ♀ 1½-2mm. Disk 5-lobed. Ovary deeply or almost completely concealed in the receptacle (seemingly inferior); style 2-4 mm; stigmas capitellate. Abortive pistil in ♂ minute, hairy. Drupe broadly ellipsoid or ovoid, 2½-3 by 1¼-2¼ cm, rusty velvety (indumentum c. ¾ mm thick); apex obtuse or acute.
In forest from the lowland up to 1500 m, occasionally in marshy places. Fl. April, July; fr. April-May, Sept.-Nov.
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