Tree up to 30(-45) m high and 50(-90) cm Ø, sometimes with steep plank buttresses up to 2 m high, often slightly sinuous or angular. Bark light greyish to reddish brown, shallowly fissured. Leaves chartaceous to subcoriaceous, elliptic to narrowly elliptic, oblong or obovate-oblong, 5½-16(-25) by 2-5(-6)cm, glabrous, not papillose beneath; base cuneate (margins separate); apex acuminate; nerves 8-28 pairs; veins reticulate, faint; petiole 1-6½ cm, semiterete, sulcate or flat above. Panicles 8-18 cm long, puberulous, glabrescent, or glabrous; terminal parts of branches laxly branched, with spacious internodes, loosely flowered; floral bracts ovate, ¾-1½45 mm long; pedicels rather long, (1½-)2½-4mm. Flowers light green-yellowish or white. Calyx divided to ⅓-½45 of its length, lobes suborbicular, ½-½4 mm long. Floral axis between calyx and stamens elongated and like a gynandrophore, 1½ mm long. Petals oblong or obovate-oblong, 3½-4 by 1-2 mm, cuneate at the base, puberulous on both surfaces, sometimes glabrescent or almost glabrous outside. Disk lobes alternate with stamens. Stamens 2-3½ mm; anthers oblong, ½-¾ mm long. Ovary ovoid, c. ½ mm ø; style 1½-272 mm; stigma capitellate. Drupe globose or subglobose, 1½45-1¾ cm Ø; enlarged petals red when fresh, narrowly oblong to linear, 3¾-9 by 1-1½45 cm.
Lowland forest up to 270 m, sometimes at 850 m, occasionally on limestone; almost in a pure stand at G. Raya, Langkawi. Fl. May-June, Sept.-Jan.; fr. March-May, Aug., Dec-Jan.
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Lowland forest; usually at elevations up to 270 metres, sometimes ascending to 850 metres; occasionally growing on limestone; rarely almost in a pure stand.
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