Ryticaryum longifolium K.Schum. & Lauterb.

Sprawling shrub to 5 m; young growth and buds strigose with brown hairs. Leaves glabrous except scattered appressed simple hairs on midrib below; lamina oblanceolate or oblong-lanceolate, rarely obovate, shortly caudate, 8-18 cm long, 3-6 cm wide; base cuneate; secondary veins 7-10 pairs; petiole 5-10 mm long. Spikes compact, mostly 3-5 cm long, 1.5-2.5 cm long, rarely up to 11 cm; rachis densely strigose with brown hairs. Calyx cupular, shallowly 5-lobed, strigose, 0.5-0.8 mm long. Corolla sparsely to densely strigose outside, glabrous inside, 1.5-2 mm long. Male flowers: stamens 4 or 5; filaments c. 0.5 mm long; anthers 0.8-1.2 mm long; rudimentary ovary strigose. Female flowers: ovary ovoid-conical, densely strigose. Drupe ovoid-ellipsoidal, 2-2.5 cm long, c. 1.5 cm wide, 0.8-1.2 cm thick; mesocarp 2-3 mm thick; endocarp woody, c. 1 mm thick.

Scattered in the understorey of primary forest, especially in gallery forest, sometimes also in secondary forest; at elevations from the lowland up to 1,800 metres.

Can be grown by seedlings.