Trees up to 35 m, rarely buttressed, bark smooth, peeling, red-to darkbrown, with distinct smell. Twigs glabrous, small cataphylls at base of shoots. Leaves ovate to oblong-ovate, rarely lanceolate, 8-20 by 3-7.5 cm, base rounded to acute, margin entire, apex tapering to long-acuminate, surface densely black-punctate beneath, herbaceous to slighdy coriaceous, with 8-12 pairs of nerves, venation not very distinct, both sides glabrous, basal glands small, usually 2 on the petiole just below the blade, sometimes in the margin of the blade. Petiole 0.5-l(-1.5) cm. Stipules narrowly triangular to lanceolate, up to 5 by 1.5 mm, connate with their excentric keeled midribs. Racemes solitary, in axils of usually fallen leaves, 2-5 cm, in fruit longer, peduncle very short, rachis glabrous or pubescent, some empty bracts at base of raceme, pedicels up to 5(-7) mm. Flowers 5(-6)-merous. Hypanthium c. 2 mm high, glabrous outside or with few hairs. Sepals triangular, 0.5-1 mm long, hairy at apex. Petals elliptic to orbicular, 2.5-4 mm long, white. Stamens 25-50, filaments up to 6 mm, anthers up to 1 mm long. Ovary glabrous, style up to 4.5 mm. Fruits ovoid to ellipsoid, base rounded, apex acute, 15-23 by 7-12 mm, red when ripe, the endocarp glabrous inside. Seed with glabrous testa.
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A tree that loses its leaves. It grows 15 m tall. The trunk can be 50 cm across. The leaves are simple and oblong. The flowers are light pink and in loose groups. The flowering branches can be drooping. The fruit is oblong with a large stone. It is 2 cm long.
Dense, primary forest and the more open secondary formations, at elevations from sea level to 1,500 metres.
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It is a tropical plant. It grows on the edges of tropical rainforests.
Uses Rarely noted. Bark used for rice-bins (Sabah, Tikau SAN 26474), as vermicide for buffalo (Sabah, Kandilis SAN 10323) and as fish poison (Kalimantan, Nooteboom 4449).
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