Tree 8-30 m high and 10-30 cm Ø, sometimes myrmecophilous. Bark fawn green, or pale brown, cracked or fissured. Leaves spaced, spiral, sub-coriaceous or coriaceous, sometimes chartaceous, oblanceolate or obovate-oblong, (23½-)35-48 by (9-)14-18cm; glabrous, sometimes sparsely puberulous beneath on midrib, nerves, and veins; papillae distinct, covering the lower surface except the midrib, nerves, and thicker veins; base cuneate; apex acute or acuminate, sometimes obtuse, rarely slightly emarginate; nerves 12-26 pairs, prominent beneath, slightly elevated or flat above; veins reticulate-scalariform distinct and slightly elevated on both surfaces; petiole 2½-4 cm. Panicles terminal, up to 55 cm long, pubescent; lateral branches obliquely ascending, up to 30 cm long; bracts triangular, ½-1 mm long; pedicels 0 in ♂ (2-3 mm in ♂). Flower-buds globose. Flowers pale green or cream-coloured. Calyx lobes triangular, c. ⅔ mm long. Petals imbricate, ovate-oblong, elliptic, or broad-ovate, 2¼ by ¾-1 mm in ♂ (4-5 by 2½-3 mm in ♀), puberulous outside, with c. 8 longitudinal veins. Stamens 2-3 mm; anthers ovoid, c. ⅔ mm long. Imperfect or sterile stamens in ♀ c. 2½ mm. Disk round, flat, l-1½ mm Ø, pilose above. Ovary subglobose, c. 2 mm Ø, pubescent; styles 1¼ mm. Drupe obliquely obo-void, 3¼ by 1¾ cm, pubescent, glabrescent; apex obtuse; hypocarp short-cupular, c. 1¼ by 1½ cm.
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A tree. It grows 8-30 m tall. The bark is cracked and grey green. The leaves are in spirals and spaced apart. They are oblong and 35-48 cm long by 14-18 cm wide. The flowers are pale green or cream. The flower panicles are at the end of branches and 55 cm long.
Usually in lowland forest by streams, on edge of swamps, in inundated areas or on flat alluvial, sometimes in forest up to 1200 m. Fl. March-Nov.; fr.--07.
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