Tree or large shrub, 7-30 m by 35-80 cm ø, often with small buttresses; branches glabrous, rarely densely tomentose. Leaves (mostly broad-)elliptic to broad-obovate, 13-30 by 9-25 cm, herbaceous to papyraceous, rarely chartaceous, glabrous or sometimes partly or entirely densely short-tomentose beneath; base subcordate to cuneate, de-current; margin slightly undulate; apex rounded; midrib forked, nerves (7-)9-14 (-16) pairs; petiole 1-3.5 cm. Inflorescences 15-25 cm long, glabrous but for the minutely tomentose ultimate branches, widely branched, many-flowered. Calyx 1-2 mm high, mostly glabrous, rarely outside more or less densely minutely tomentose. Corolla 4-4.5 mm long, outside glabrous to sparsely pubescent, tube inside pubescent near the insertion of the stamens, lobes 1.5-2 mm long. Anthers narrowly hastate, 1.25-1.5 mm, cells up to halfway free, distinctly corniculate, glabrous. Style 0.5-1 mm, stigma capitate to club-shaped, 0.5 mm. Fruits ellipsoid, usually stipitate, blunt or rarely acute, 3.5-4 by 1.25-1.75 by 1.5 cm, orange to red.
Dryland and swampy rain-forests, often along river-banks, sometimes in Phragmites swamps, in some localities periodically flooded by fresh or salt water, from sea-level up to c. 400 m. Fl. mainly Jan.-May, fr. Jan., March, July.
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