Shrub or generally tree, 10-20 (-36) m; crown compact; trunk straight, closely branched, occasionally up to 1.2 m ø at base, sometimes buttressed; bark grey to brown, peeling off in scroll-shaped patches. Branches pendulous. Branchlets smooth, glabrous. Leaves elliptic to ovate-oblong, sometimes ovate or suborbicular, apex shortly acuminate, tip acute or bluntish, rarely obtuse-rounded, base cuneate to obtuse or rounded, slightly inequilateral, firmly membranaceous when young, usually subcoriaceous, rarely coriaceous in later stages, glabrous, somewhat shining above when fresh, drying usually dull, greenish brown or glaucous-green, conspicuously parchment-like (shagreened) from close wrinkled surface and minutely pustular, ± distinctly and densely pel-lucid-punctulate, considerably varying in size even in the same specimen, 8-15 (-25) by 3-7 (-8.5,-11) cm; nerves (4-) 5-8 (rarely-12) pairs, curved-ascendent, obsolete above, not much raised beneath, transverse veins and reticulations rather inconspicuous; petiole a little swollen distally, 4-10 (-17) mm. Flowers from small woody warts, (1—) 3—6 (—15) per fascicle; pedicels 1-2 mm; bracts and bracteoles several, rounded, scale-like, reddish, minute. Calyx 5-lobed, lobes ovate, obtuse, ciliate. Petals 5, oblong or elongately so, greenish white, glabrous outside, hairy except the base inside, tips finally recurved about halfway. Anthers ovate. Ovary semi-inferior in a conical faintly 5-lobed disk; style filiform, (1-) 2-4 mm. Drupe subsessile, pyriform when young, ellipsoid to subglobose with shortly attenuate base when fully developed, apex with the remains of the calyx obtuse-rounded, style base tiny, inconspicuous, 1.6-2 (-2.5) cm; pericarp thin-fleshy, pink to purple, rugose or tuberculate; endocarp thin-woody. Seed 1, c. 1.2 cm.
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A tree. It grows 30 m tall. The trunk is 82 cm across. It has buttresses up to 1.2 m tall. The bark is greenish-grey. The branches are horizontal. They are slender and drooping. The leaves are simple and oval and 8-18 cm long by 4-7 cm wide. The leaves are alternate and leathery. The flowers are in groups in the axils of leaves. The flowers are greenish-white and 8 mm across. The fruit are fleshy and round when mature. They are 2 cm long and pink to purple. There is a single seed.
Lowland forest and brushwood, mixed Dipterocarp and even secondary forest, often close to the sea, scattered though locally common, on well-drained flat land or lower slopes of ridges, at elevations from sea level up to 800 metres.
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In lowland forest and brushwood, mixed Dipterocarp and even secondary forest, often close to the sea, scattered though locally common, on well-drained flat land or lower slopes of ridges, up to c. 800 m.
It is a tropical plant. It grows in mixed dipterocarp and evergreen forests up to 700 m above sea level.
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