Leaves usually oblong to lanceolate, 5-40(-45) by 2-15 cm, base acute, apex acute to acuminate, densely pubescent on midrib and sometimes on nerves and lamina, beneath glabrous to tomentose, sometimes with domatia; nerves 7-25 pairs. Panicles usually lax, sometimes more dense, 10-50 cm, branched up to the 3rd (4th) order; axes pubescent to short-tomentose, the lower primary ones subtended by small leaves or not. Flowers more or less crowded to solitary, (sub)sessile; mature buds 1.5-2 mm diam. Sepals 5 (4). Inner petals c. 0.7 mm, about halfway or somewhat less bifid; lobes divergent or not, usually rather, narrow, more or less fimbriate, sometimes entire. Style about as long as ovary or shorter. Endocarps globose or ± ellipsoid, (4.5-)5.5-8 mm diam., with rather wide, coarse reticulum; median keel prominent, at one end often running out into a minute ventral processus; ventral pore not or not much sunken, not spouted.
Primary rain-forest, on various soil types, reported to occur on limestone, sand, volcanic loam, and andesite; altitude from sea-level up to 2400 m.
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