Trees to 15 m, d.b.h. 15-20 cm; monoecious or dioecious. Bark brown, smooth. New branchlets pubescent; spines absent. Stipules linear, small, caducous. Petiole 1-1.5 cm; leaf blade elliptic-lanceolate but narrowly elliptic-lanceolate on young trees, 7-15 × 2.5-4 cm, leathery, glabrous, shiny, abaxially pale green, adaxially green, base cuneate, margin entire, apex obtuse to ± caudate. Bisexual inflorescences with 1 apical female flower and many basal male flowers. Male inflorescences axillary, solitary or paired, scorpioid; bracts 3, triangular, basally connate. Female inflorescences 1-flowered; peduncle 1-1.5 cm. Male flowers: pedicel ca. 6 mm, pubescent; calyx lobes 5, reddish white, imbricate, narrowly elliptic, ca. 4 mm, with marginal hairs; filaments flat; pistillode small, conic-columnar. Female flowers: calyx lobes ± orbicular, ca. 1 cm, enclosing ovary, with marginal hairs; ovary globose; style 2-branched almost from base, densely dark brown pubescent. Drupes globose, ca. 1 cm in diam., enclosed by enlarged calyx lobes, basally attenuate and fleshy. Fl. Oct-Nov.
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A medium sized evergreen tree. It grows 15 m tall. The trunk is 15-20 cm across. The leaves are narrowly oval or sword shaped. They are 7-15 cm long by 3-4 cm wide. The berries are edible.
It is a tropical plant. It grows up to 1,500 m altitude in NE India. In southern China it grows between 600-1,400 m above sea level. It grows in moist shaded areas.
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