Small to large trees, 8-45 m; buttresses frequent, up to 1.5 m high by 2 m wide by 10 cm thick. Twigs terete, glabrous, sometimes pruinose; very young stems pubescent, quickly glabrescent. Leaves with petiole 1-3.3(-4.7) cm and blade chartaceous to subcoriaceous or occasionally coriaceous, (5-)8.5-22.5(-26) by (2-)3.3-9.5 cm, ovate to broadly elliptic, with the base obtuse, truncate or cuneate and the apex usually acute or obtuse, or rarely acuminate, rounded or emarginate; hairs absent; very rarely glandular; margin crenate, crenulate or almost entire, occasionally undulate; secondary veins in 10-15 or more pairs, usually widely spaced, 0.8-1.5 cm apart in mid part of blade, ar-cuate. Stipules narrowly to broadly triangular, lingulate or ovate, 4-12 by 3-6 mm, glabrous except for ciliolate margin. Inflorescence usually terminal, rarely otherwise; median axes 5.5-16.5(-26.5) cm long, 2-4 mm diameter at base, (up to 4 mm diameter in fruit), with 4-7(-10) pairs of major lateral branches, the lowest ones often in axils of most distal leaves; axes glabrous to pubescent. Flowers mostly bisexual, 4-5(-7) mm diameter; (4-)5(-6)-merous (except for gynoecium); pedicel above articulation c. 1 mm, below 1.5-3 mm; hypanthium and calyx sparsely pubescent to glabrous; calyx lobes 1.8-3(-3.5) by 1.5-2 mm, membranous or not; petals 1.5-2.5(-3) mm long, usually equal to or just shorter than calyx lobes; filaments 1.5-3(-3.5) mm long, anthers c. 0.5 mm long; disc lobes fleshy, 0.5-0.8 mm diameter; ovary 2-carpellate, 1-1.5 mm diameter, usually densely pubescent to pilose, the hairs often reddish, occasionally ± glabrous; styles 0.7-1.5(-3) mm long; ovules 6-8 per ovary. Fruits spherical, ovate or ellipsoid, 1-1.8(-2) by 1-1.5(-1.8) cm, apex rounded or occasionally pointed; epicarp smooth, warty or sometimes with resinous patches.
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A tree. It grows 30 m tall. The trunk is 30-40 cm across and can be slightly fluted. The leaves are spaced in pairs along the branches. The leaves are simple and 9-18 cm long by 5-9 cm wide. The flowers are in the axils of leaves near the ends of branches. The fruit is 1.5-2 cm long. They are pale red and fleshy.
Usually in lowland and foothills primary rain forest, occasionally extending to montane forest, also in strand forest (Vogelkop), savanna woodland with Melaleu-ca, swampy areas with standing water, or forest patches in savanna (Aru Islands and TransFly region). Occasionally reported from ultramafic soils. Sometimes locally common. Generally at low altitude, usually 0-750 m, or rarely up to 1000 m on Morotai and perhaps 1600 m in New Britain
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It is a tropical plant. It grows up to 1,300 m above sea level.
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