Tree 8-40 m high and 10-53 cm Ø. Bark greyish, greenish brown, or reddish brown, smooth. Leaves spaced, spiral, chartaceous to subcoriaceous, elliptic-oblong to-lanceolate, sometimes obovate-oblong, (7-)14-37 by (3½-)5½-13½ cm; upper surface glabrous; lower surface glabrous, sometimes sparsely puberulous or pubescent; papillae distinct, covering the lower surface except the midrib, nerves, veins, and veinlets (seemingly being separated into small groups); base cuneate; apex acute, sometimes obtuse, or abruptly acuminate; nerves 10-24 pairs, prominent beneath, flat and distinct above; veins reticulate, or transverse and subparallel, distinct beneath, distinct or faint above; petiole l-3½ cm. Panicles terminal, rarely also axillary, (4½-)9-3 long, pubescent; lateral branches obliquely ascending, up to 22 cm; bracts lanceolate, c. 1 mm long; pedicels 0 or very short. Flower-buds subglobose. Calyx lobes triangular, ½-⅔ mm long. Petals white, imbricate, ovate-oblong or slightly elliptic, 2-2½ by 1-1½ mm, puberulous outside, with c. 7 longitudinal veins. Stamens 2½ mm; anthers broad-ovoid, ½-⅔(-1) mm long. Imperfect or sterile stamens in ♀ 1½ mm. Disk round, flat, ⅔-1 mm Ø, pilose above. Ovary subglobose, 1¾ mm Ø, velutinous; styles c. ½ mm long. Drupe broad-ellipsoid, or-obovoid, rarely ± transverse-oblong, 3-4 by 2-3½ cm, velutinous, glabrescent; apex apiculate or slightly rostrate; hypocarp obconical, ¾-l by ½-l cm.
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A shrub or tree 3-10 m tall. It can grow to 27 m high. The trunk can be 40 cm across. The leaves are alternate and oblong 16-50 x 7-11 cm. The leaf stalk is 1-4 cm long. The sap of the tree can damage the skin. The flowers are 2.5 mm across. They are white and in groups. The fruit are 8 mm long and orange and fleshy.
Lowland forest up to 800 m, sometimes up to 1200 m, rarely in occasionally inundated areas, or on limestone. Fl. fr. May-Jan.
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A tropical plant. It grows in rainforest up to 1,200 m above sea level. It is often in swamps.
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