Small tree up to 11 m; bark grey, smooth or fissured; wood white. Leaves: see under the species; petiole 1-2 mm. Main rachis of the infructescence up to 5 mm ø. ♂ Flowers: tepals greenish, c. 1.5 mm, oblong, acute; anthers yellow, almost sessile, oval, 1-1.5 mm long. Disk lobes and rudiment of ovary thick, irregularly angular, c. 0.5 mm long. ♀ Flowers green; pedicels less than 0.5 mm; tepals c. 1 mm, acute; staminodes shorter than 0.5 mm; disk lobes as long as the staminodes, but much broader. Ovary globose, c. 1 mm, stigma sessile. Drupe ellipsoid or ± ovoid, 2.3-3 by 1.5-1.7 cm; in herb, usually yellowish brown; pedicels 3-5 mm.
In deciduous forest, locally common, rarely in dry evergreen forest. From sea level (in beach forest) up to 600 m. Fl. Dec.-March; fr. April-July. Flowers strongly fragrant.
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