Epiphytic shrub or small tree, 4-8 m high, or a liana. Leaves with 2(-3) pairs of leaflets, rarely 1-foliolate, glabrous; rachis 2½-6 cm, petiole 2-3½ cm. Leaflets chartaceous, elliptic, or elliptic-lanceolate, 5-9 by 2-3¾ cm, entire, with glabrous pit-like domatia; base acute or cuneate; apex caudate to Ungulate, acumen l-l¾ cm long; nerves 8-15 pairs, veins reticulate, distinct below, obscure above; lateral petiolules 1/5-¾ cm, terminal one (½-)l¾-2½ cm. Inflorescences paniculate, axillary, sometimes pseudo-terminal, up to 17 cm long, sparsely puberulous, glabrescent, branches up to 9 cm; bracts ovate, ⅓-⅔ mm long; pedicels 1½-4½ mm. Flowers yellowish. Calyx lobes triangular, ⅔-l mm long. Petals elliptic, rarely obovate or ovate, 2-2¾ by 1-1¾ mm, glabrous. Stamens 1l/2-2 mm; anthers ovoid, c. 1 mm long; staminodes in ♀ ⅓-¾ mm. Disk discoid, ⅔-1¼ mm Ø. Ovary subglobose, c. ⅔ mm Ø, glabrous; pistillode in ♂ c. ½ mm long. Drupe subglobose, c. 7 mm Ø, deep red; exocarp separat-ing from mesocarp in ripe fruits.
Mossy montane forest with many epiphytes, in forest dominated by Podocarpus or Nothofagus, or in mixed forest, 900-2400 m, once found on wet coastal coral limestone ridge at 10 m (Biak I.). Fl. March, Aug.-Dec; fr. Aug., Oct., Dec.This species may obviously occur as a hemi-epiphyte.
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