Tree 15-27 m high and 20-26 cm ø. Buttresses occasionally present, ⅔ m high, 1-1½ m wide, thin. Bark reddish, smooth. Branchlets brown, pubescent, glabrescent. Leaves subcoriaceous or coriaceous, oblanceolate, elliptic to narrowly elliptic, 8-41 by 2-10 cm; glabrous and shining above, sparsely pubescent below, usually glabrescent except on the midrib and nerves; papillae distinct, compact on the lower surface; base cuneate to attenuate, rarely obtuse; apex acuminate, sometimes cuspidate; nerves 16-26 pairs, veins reticulate-scalariform, distinct below, faint above; petiole in the lower ½-⅓ slightly thickened, ½-4 cm, pubescent, glabrescent. Panicles terminal or axillary, up to 26 cm long, pubescent, glabrescent; bracts triangular or linear, 2-10 mm long; floral bracts triangular, ½-l mm long. Flowers subsessile, 4½-7 mm long. Hypanthium 1¾-2¼ mm long. Calyx lobes triangular, 1-1¾ mm long. Petals white or yellow, oblong, elliptic, ovate-oblong, rarely obovate-oblong, 2-5 by l¼-1½ mm, longitudinal ridged inside. Stamens 2-3 mm; filaments brown, free; anthers ½-⅔ mm. Imperfect or abortive stamens in ♀ 1-1¾ mm. Disk 5-lobed. Ovary round and flat, 2½-3 mm ø; style 2 mm; stigmas capitellate. Abortive pistil in ♂ conical, ½ mm long, hairy. Drupe broadly ellipsoid, 2-3½ by 1½-2½ cm, rusty short-hairy; apex obtuse.
Primary forest, mixed dipterocarp forest, sometimes on sandstone, from the lowland up to 1200 m. Fl. Aug.-Oct.; fr. Aug., Oct., Nov.
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