Treelet or tree, up to 15(-20?) m, sometimes with stiltroots up to 1 m high. Stipules ½-5 by ½-3 mm, often up to 3 mm long, ciliate. Leaves obovate-lanceolate, 6-85 by 1½-15 cm, obtuse to acuminate at apex, tapering at base, margins somewhat involute, nerves 2-7 mm apart, chartaceous or subcoriaceous; petiole up to 4 cm. Inflorescences 7-65cm; peduncle 1½-8 mm Ø; pedicels filiform, 2-5 mm; bracts usually very small, ± triangular, sometimes larger and transitional to leaves. Flowers ☿ or functionally unisexual, erect. Sepals obovate to elliptic, 3-5 by 1½-3 mm, greenish, sometimes purplish. Petals obovate-oblong, 4-7½ by 1½-4 mm, white, creamy, pink or purplish red. Outer staminodes 0-∞, filiform, c. 1 mm long; inner ones 5-30, filiform to linear, 1½-2 mm long. Stamens in ♂ flowers with ¾-2½ mm long filaments; anthers 1½-2½ by ½-¾ mm; in ♀ flowers with ¼-½ mm long filaments; anthers c. 1 by ⅓ mm. Ovary subglobular to ovoid, ± 3-lobed, glabrous, in ♂ flowers ½-1 by ⅓-¾ mm, in ♀ flowers c. 3 by 2 mm; style cylindric, up to 1 mm; stigma 3-lobed. Fruit fusiform, up to 1½ by ¾ cm, acuminate. Seeds c. 1 by ⅓ mm with c. 2½ mm long, slender wings.
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A small tree. It grows 15 m tall. The trunk can be 10-15 cm across. The bark is brown with grey patches. The leaves are arranged in spirals along the branches. The leaves are simple and 6-85 cm long by 1.5-15 cm wide. The flowers are in a group near the end of branches. They are white or pale pink. The fruit are 1.4-2.5 cm long.
From sea-level up to 3000 m, in primary and secondary forests, on landslides and in secondary grasslands, on level land to steep slopes, sometimes near river-banks or in swampy localities, on clay or more sandy or rocky soils; scattered or locally common in open habitats.
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