Tree up to 45(-53) m high and 70(-120) cm Ø. Buttresses up to 3 m high, 5 m wide, 15 cm thick. Bark grey-brown, dark reddish green, smooth or dippled, sometimes deeply fissured. Leaves chartaceous to thin-coriaceous, narrowly elliptic, rarely elliptic, 7-12(-16) by 3-4½(-6) cm, glabrous; occasionally with glabrous, dome-like domatia; papillae very compact, obscure or indistinguishable (rarely distinct on young ones); base obtuse or cuneate (sometimes the margins joining with each other); apex shortly acuminate; nerves 14-21 pairs; veins reticulate, some slightly parallel and cross-bar-like, often faint; petiole 3½-6 cm, all or usually the lower ⅔-½ terete, sometimes flat or grooved above in the upper ⅓-½ • Panicles 8-14 cm long, puberulous and glabrescent; terminal parts of branches laxly branched, with spacious internodes, loosely flowered; floral bracts ovate, ⅔-l mm long; pedicels ½ mm. Flowers white. Calyx divided to c. ½ of its length, lobes slightly triangular or obovate, c. ¾ mm long. Floral axis between calyx and stamens not elongated. Petals elliptic to elliptic-lanceolate, or obovate-oblong, 2-3 by ¾-l mm, cuneate at the base; densely puberulous on both surfaces. Disk lobes confluent with the base of filaments. Stamens ¾-1½45 mm; anthers oblong, ⅓ mm long. Ovary subglobose, ⅔ mm Ø; style ¾-l mm; stigma capitellate. Abortive pistil in ♂ c. ½ mm long. Drupe ovoid-oblong or ellipsoid, 1¾-2 by ¾-l cm; enlarged petals linear-oblong, 5½-7 by ¾-l cm.
Rainforest, rarely in secondary or kerangas forest, occasionally on ultrabasic or on coral limestone, from the lowland up to 700 m. Fl. Jan.-Dec.; fr. Febr.-March, July-Aug., Oct.
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