Tree, (7-)25-30(-40) m, bole (6-)10-15 m, 10-30(-40) cm Ø; crown dense; bark greyish to brownish, smooth or superficially fissured, yellow-brown mottled. Branchlets robust (5-10 cm Ø), often finely warted and vernicose. Leaves lanceolate or elliptic-oblong, apex very shortly acu-minate, or merely ± abruptly apiculate, base broadly cuneate to rounded, very coriaceous, stiff, a little shining above in the dry state, dull beneath, (18-)26-36 by 7-11 (-13) cm, the extreme margin slightly and narrowly revolute, nerves 15-20 pairs, generally very slightly raised on both faces, veins ± obscure; petiole rugulose, 1.5-2(-3) by 0.3-0.5 cm. Peduncle of the umbel 3-5 cm by 2-3 mm, with 4-8(-12) shorter or longer (c. 10 mm) robust and a little flattened branches, which bear 3-4(-5) flowers crowded at the thickened end of each branch, or, as normally more (up to 8) flowers are present, these close together and uni-or biseriate on the recurved and thickened upper part of the respective branch. Bracteoles at base of the umbel broad-subulate, (3-)4-5 by 1 mm, ± persistent. Calyx cup-shaped, 2 mm, lobed to ⅓. Petals c. 5 by 2 mm, light yellow or white. Drupe ellipsoid-ovoid, apex gradually attenuate, obtuse, 2-2.4 by 1.2-1.5 cm.
Primary lowland (Dipterocarp) forest, on hills or low ridges, not rare on sandstone or sandy soil, or coastal kerangas, never in peat swamp, from sea-level-100(-680, a form with narrower leaves in Tristania forest on Mt Kinabalu at 1220) m. Fl. fr. Jan.-Dec.
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