Tree 5-25 m high and 8-47 cm Ø, sometimes myrmecophilous. Buttresses occasionally present, thick, equal, up to c. 1 m high. Bark grey or light brown, flaky. Leaves spaced, spiral, subcoriaceous, oblanceolate, or elliptic, 15-55 by 11½-18 cm; sparsely puberulous (with short, simple and stellate hairs) or subglabrous on both surfaces; papillae distinct, covering the lower surface except the midrib, nerves, and veins; base cuneate or attenuate; apex obtuse or rounded, sometimes abruptly acuminate; nerves 22-32 pairs, conspicuous beneath, distinct above; veins reticulate, some cross-bar-like; petiole (l-)3-4½(-6) cm. Panicles terminal, up to 32 cm long, pubescent; lateral branches obliquely ascending, up to 23 cm; bracts triangular or lanceolate, 1¼-5 mm long; pedicels 0. Flower-buds globose. Flowers greenish white or yellowish. Calyx triangular, c. ⅔ mm long. Petals imbricate, ovate-oblong or elliptic, 2¼-4½ by 1-3 mm, puberulous outside, with 15-20 longitudinal veins. Stamens c. 3 mm; anthers broad-ovoid, c. ⅔ mm long. Imperfect or sterile stamens in ♀ c. 2 mm. Disk round, flat, c. 1 mm Ø in ♂ (c. 3 mm Ø in ♀), pilose above. Ovary dome-shaped, 3-3½ mm Ø, densely pubescent; styles c. 2 mm. Drupe orange-green when fresh, sub-globose, 4½ by 3½-4½ cm, pubescent; apex rounded; hypocarp obconical, c. 1¼ by 1 cm.
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A tree. It grows 5-25 m tall. The trunk can be 8-47 cm across. The bark is grey or light brown and flaky. The leaves are spaced apart and in spirals. They are oval and 15-55 cm long by 12-18 cm wide. The flowers are greenish white. The flowers are in groups 32 cm long at the ends of branches.
Well-drained lowland primary or secondary forest, sometimes on riversides and in swampy primary forest, up to 200 m. Fl. April-Dec.; fr. Aug.-Jan.
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A tropical plant. It was collected from Makira Province and San Cristobal, Solomon Islands.
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