Tree up to 30 m high and 1-1¼ m ø. Equal plank buttresses occasionally present, up to 1 m high. Bark grey black, smooth or shallowly fissured. Branchlets light to dark brown, puberulous, glabrescent. Leaves coriaceous, elliptic-oblong or-lanceolate, or oblanceolate, 8½-18 by 2½-5½ cm, shining and glabrous above, pubescent beneath especially on the midrib and nerves; papillae distinct on the lower surface; base attenuate; apex shortly acuminate; nerves 14-28 pairs, veins scalariform, distinct below, obscure above; petiole 1-2 cm, puberulous. Panicles terminal and axillary, 14-18 cm long, puberulous; bracts ovate to lanceolate, 3-4 mm long; floral bracts deltoid, ½ mm long. Flowers (♂) white or yellow, sessile, 4-4½ mm long. Hypanthium ¾-l mm long. Calyx lobes deltoid, ¾-l mm long. Petals elliptic-lanceolate, 3-3½ by l-l¾ mm, longitudinally ridged inside. Stamens 2½ mm; filaments brown, free; anthers ¾ mm long. Disk obscurely 5-notched. Abortive pistil minute or 0, glabrous or not replaced by a tuft of hairs. ♀ Flowers not seen. Drupe broadly ovoid, 2½-3 by 2-2¾ cm, golden velvety (indumentum c. ⅓ mm thick); apex obtuse.
Lowland forest, sometimes on sandstone ridges or in secondary forest, up to 150 m. Fl. June, Oct.-Nov.; fr.--10.
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