Tree, 20-30 m tall, up to 45 cm Ø. Branchlets robust, smooth or finely rugulose, vernicose, 5-12 mm Ø. Leaves elliptic to obovate-elliptic, apex broadly subacuminate-attenuate or obtusely apic-ulate, sometimes rounded, base broadly cu-neate, coriaceous, a little glossy above, dull beneath when dry, (10-)12-16(-22) by 5-8(-10.5) cm, edge somewhat revolute in dry specimens, nerves 10-14(-16) erecto-patent pairs, slightly or hardly raised on both faces, veins ± obscure; petiole 1.5-2 cm by c. 2.5 mm. Umbels solitary, robust, on peduncle 3-5 cm by 3 mm, branchlets of the umbel (4-)5-7, more slender, though thickened distally, (2-)3-4 cm, their basal bracts ovate, obtuse, 2 mm, early caducous. Flowers sometimes only 3 or 4 and crowded at the apex, generally 5-6(-8), close together and biseriate in the upper half of each branchlet of the umbel, secund. Calyx broadly cup-shaped, 2 mm, shal-lowly lobed or almost entire. Petals 5-6(-7) by 2.5 mm, keeled, white-greenish. Drupe ovoid to oblong-ovoid, apex gradually attenuate, obtuse, 2.5-3(-4) by (1.6-)2 cm, darker in the lower ⅔. Seed oblong, a little flattened.
Primary forest, rarely in swamps, 20-1000 m. Fl. April-July, fr. June-Nov.
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