Tall tree, up to 50 m high and 70 cm Ø. Bark shallowly fissured, finely cracked. Buttresses up to 4 m high, c. 2 m extending outward from the trunk. Young parts rusty-pubescent. Leaves with 4-6 pairs of leaflets; petiole, rachis, and petiolules sparsely puberulous to rusty-pubescent or tomentose, sometimes glabrescent. Leaflets thinly coriaceous, sparsely puberulous to rusty-pubescent or tomentose, sometimes glabrescent except on the midrib and nerves on both surfaces; ovate-oblong to lanceolate, elliptic, rarely ovate, 4½-15 by 3-7 cm; base asymmetric or oblique, rounded, obtuse, cuneate, or subcordate; apex acute to acuminate; nerves 4-9 pairs, elevated beneath, visible above; veins reticulate-scalariform or reticulate, distinct or visible on both surfaces; petiolules, if present, flat or convex above, lateral ones up to ½ cm, the terminal one l-3¾ cm. Panicles up to 54 cm long, rusty-pubescent or tomentose, much branched, branches up to 19 cm; bracts triangular, lancolate or narrowly elliptic, 2¾-3½ mm long, puberulous outside, glabrous inside; pedicels 2-5(-7) mm. Calyx 2½-4½ mm long, puberulous on both surfaces; lobes triangular, unequal, 2-3 mm long. Petals broad-ovate to ovate-oblong, or elliptic, 3-5 by 1¾-3 mm, sometimes slightly hairy outside. Stamens 2½-A mm; anthers ovoid, c. ¾ mm long; sterile stamens in ♀ c. 1½ mm. Disk fleshy, flat, round or slightly 4-angular, or discoid, hairy, 2-2¾ mm Ø. Ovary conical, c. 1½ mm Ø; style 1½ mm; stigmas capitate. Drupe subglobose, 1-1½ by ¾-1¼ cm, apiculate or beaked; enlarged calyx sparsely puberulous, tube c. ½ cm long, lobes (or wings) narrowly oblong, 7-8½ (-12½) by ¾-l½ cm. Seed broad ellipsoid or subglobose, c. ¾ by ½ cm.
Dryland forest in the lowland, occasionally in inundated places or in peat-swamps, rarely on limestone (Langkawi), up to 280 m. Fl. Jan.-May, Sept.-Nov.; fr. Jan., March-July, Nov.Its leaves turn red, then fall, and after this it flowers (BURKILL).
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