Shrub 5 m high, or liana up to 30 m high. Leaves unifoliolate or with 1-2 pairs of leaflets, glabrous; rachis, if present, up to 5 cm; petiole 4-7 cm. Leaflets chartaceous to subcoriaceous, ovate-or elliptic-oblong, or lanceolate, 13-24 by 5-7½ cm, entire, with glabrous pit-like domatia; base cuneate; apex caudate to Ungulate, acumen up to 1½(-2)cm; nerves 15-21 pairs, veins reticulate, faint or distinct on both surfaces; lateral petiolules c. ½ cm, terminal one up to 4 cm. Inflorescences paniculate, axillary or pseudo-terminal, up to 38 cm long, glabrous, branches up to 8 cm; bracts triangular, c. ½ mm long; pedicels l½-2 mm. Flowers yellowish green or yellowish. Calyx lobes triangular, c. ½ mm long. Petals elliptic, 2-2½ by 1-1½ mm, glabrous. Stamens c. l½ mm; anthers ovoid, c. ¾ mm long; staminodes in ♀ c. 1 mm. Disk discoid, 1-1¼ mm Ø. Ovary globose, c. ⅔ mm Ø, glabrous; pistillode in ♂ c. ⅔ mm long. Drupe subglobose, c. 5 by 7 mm, brownish, red-brown or red-black when ripe; exocarp separating from mesocarp in ripe fruits.
Primary forest, sometimes in sago swamps or on riverbanks, 200-800 m. Fl. May, July-Nov.; fr. June, Sept., Oct.The variation in habit leads to the assumption that this species may occur as a hemi-epiphyte.
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