Tree 14-28 m high and 19-40 cm Ø. Bark grey, greyish green, light orange, or red, rather smooth, sometimes shallowly fissured. Leaves spaced, spiral, subcoriaceous, obovate-or elliptic-oblong, 9-35 by 4½-15 cm; above pubescent on the midrib, beneath pubescent, glabrescent, papillae indistinct; base cuneate; apex acute or acuminate; nerves 10-17 pairs, prominent beneath, distinct or faint above; veins reticulate or transverse, distinct beneath, faint above; petiole 2-4 cm long. Panicles axillary, terminal, or cauliflorous, up to 20 cm long, densely pubescent; lateral branches up to 4 cm, ± perpendicular to the main axis; bracts triangular, ovate, ½-1 mm long; pedicels very short. Flower-buds globose. ♂ Flowers: Calyx lobes triangular, c ½ mm long. Petals white, imbricate, elliptic, c 2 by 1 mm, with several longitudinal veins, sericeous outside. Stamens 2½ mm; anthers ovoid, c ⅔ mm long. Disk round, flat, c ¾ mm Ø, pubescent above. ♀ Flowers not seen. Drupe yellow when ripe, broad-ellipsoid or-ovoid, 3½-5½ by 2½-3½ cm; puberulous, glabrescent; apex obtuse; hypocarp obconical, stalk-like, 1-2¼ by 1-1½ cm.
Lowland rainforest and occasionally in rocky river gully, up to 200 m. Fl. March, July; fr. Febr., March, Sept., Oct.
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