Small to large tree, (2-)10-20(-30) m tall; bole straight, angular, with rather deep, 0.5-2 m long grooves, older ones sometimes perforated, to 1.4 m diam.; bark brownish-gray, with small oblong scales and vertical, straight cracks closely together, showing white latex when cut; sapwood yellow, hard. Branches angular, glabrous; branchlets as all young parts usually more or less densely grayish-, or mostly rusty-puberulent with branched hairs. Petioles broadly channeled, (5-) 20-30(-40) x 1-2(-3) mm; blades chartaceous to coriaceous, oblong to elliptic, sometimes lanceolate, (6-)10-16(-35) x (2.5-)4-6(-13) cm, apex abruptly short-acuminate, tip acute or bluntish, base obtuse to rounded-truncate, grayish-olivaceous when dry, glabrous, shiny and often slightly tuberculate above, dull and often puberulous especially on the veins beneath, primary vein prominent on both surfaces, secondary veins (6-)10-14(-17) pairs, rather straight-ascending and subparallel, curved before the margin, slightly impressed above, prominent beneath, tertiary veins transverse, closely subparallel. Spikes solitary in the upper axils, simple, or rarely few-branched, shortly pedunculate, rusty-tomentellous in all outer parts, 2-6(-9) cm long. Flowers cream, scented, 2-5 per fascicle. Calyx obscurely 5(-6)-dentate, laxly set with dark glands, ca. 1 mm long; petals connate into a campanulate tube for 1-1.5 mm, free lobes with subacut apexe, inner side with long erect hairs, 1-1.5 mm long; stamens inserted just below the orifice, filaments glabrous; ovary subglobose. Drupe ellipsoid, rarely subovoid, yellowish-reddish initially, becoming purplish-black at full maturity, 2-2.5(-3) x 1.5(-2) cm, on peduncle 2-3 mm long.
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Trees to 30 m. tall, the young branches angular, glabrous. Leaves elliptic, 8-16 cm. long, 3.0-7.5 cm. broad, abruptly and briefly acuminate at the apex, rounded or obtuse at the base, chartaceous, glabrous, the costa emersed above and below, the primary lateral nerves numerous, conspicuous; petiole 5-23 mm. long, broadly canaliculate. Inflorescence spicate, rusty-tomentulose, the rhachis elongat-ing to 5 cm. long, the flowers sessile, subtended by small ovate bracts. Calyx cupuliform, about 1 mm. long, 1.5-2.0 mm. in diameter, 5-toothed, rusty-tomentulose without; petals 5, connate into a campanulate corolla tube, the tube 1.0-1.5 mm. long, tomentulose without, black-punctate within, the lobes 1.0-1.5 mm. long, 1 mm. broad, villous within; stamens 10, inserted just below the orifice, the alternipetalous inserted slightly lower than the antipetalous, the anthers broader than long, minute, the filaments about 0.5 mm. long, glabrous; ovary globose, about 1.5 mm. in diameter, densely rusty-tomentulose, the style short. Immature drupe ellipsoid, about 7 mm. long, 4 mm. in diameter.
A tree. It grows 33 m high. The trunk has holes and furrows. The leaves have straight parallel side veins. The flowers are in spikes in the axils of leaves. They are 5 cm long. It has brown hairs. The fruit is narrowly oval. It is 2 cm long by 1 cm wide. It is green when young and turns yellow to red when ripe. The flesh is edible. The seed casing is 1.5 cm long by 0.8 cm wide.
Rainforests, in both primary and secondary formations, most commonly in sites not liable to seasonal inundation, growing in both sandy and clayey soils at elevations from sea level to 1,000 metres.
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It is a tropical plant. It grows in rainforest and savanna forest.
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