Plants 3-5(-15) m tall; bark gray; lenticels oblong. Branches yellowish brown, with or without spines. Petiole 5-8 mm, sparsely pilose; leaf blade 7-15 × 3-6 cm, papery or slightly fleshy, sparsely pilose, midvein adaxially depressed, lateral veins 4-6 pairs, base broadly cuneate, usually oblique, margin entire or ± wavy, apex acuminate or sometimes acute. Inflorescences terminal (or axillary), thyrses, proximal flowers in pedunculate umbels or cymes, distal flowers solitary. Flowers bisexual or unisexual (plants polygamous); perianth tube oblong-ovoid, lobes 5, subtriangular, abaxial surface and pedicels densely pilose. Stamens 4 or 5; filaments ca. 1 mm, glabrous. Disk 4-or 5-lobed. Style short; stigmas 2. Drupe pear-shaped, 3-5 cm, base narrowed into robust stipe, apex nearly truncate, slightly sunken in young fruits, persistent perianth and disk enlarging to more than 5 mm in diam. Seed subglobose; endosperm oily. Fl. Dec-Apr, fr. Aug-Nov.
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A medium sized tree. It grows 3-5 m tall but can be 15 m tall. It loses its leaves during the year. The leaves have stalks. The leaves are 5-15 cm long by 1.5-6.5 cm wide. They are oval and taper to the tip. The leaves are round toothed or scalloped towards the tip. Male and female flowers are on separate plants The flowers are yellow. The fruit is fleshy with a hard stone over the seed. It is pear shaped and narrows into a stout stalk.
It is a subtropical plant. In Nepal plants grow between 1600-1800 m altitude. They grow in open, forested areas. In China it grows between 700-2700 m altitude in S China. It grows in subtropical broad-leaved evergreen forest. In Sichuan and Yunnan.
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Open forested areas at elevations of 1200-2100 metres in the Himalayas.
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