Tree up to 36(-54) m high and 80(-100) cm Ø, occasionally ridged (ridges 250 by 20 by 3 cm). Bark dark brown or purplish brown, dippled or fissured. Leaves coriaceous, elliptic-oblong, rarely ovate, or oblanceolate, 5½-18(-23) by 2½-5(-6) cm, glabrous, occasionally with glabrous, dome-like domatia; papillae very compact, obscure, or indistinguishable on the lower surface; base cuneate (margins separate); apex acute, acuminate, or obtuse; nerves 11—15(—22) pairs; veins reticulate, some slightly parallel and cross-bar-like, often faint; petiole 1½-5 cm, semiterete, flat or slightly convex above. Panicles 6½-22 cm long, puberulous, glabrescent, or glabrous; terminal parts of branches not or little branched, with very short or obscure internodes, densely flowered; floral bracts ovate, broadly elliptic, or suborbicular, 2-4 mm long; pedicels c. 1½ mm. Flowers pale or greenish yellow. Calyx divided to 1/5-⅓ of its length, lobes suborbiculate or transverse-oblong, ½-¾ mm long. Floral axis between calyx and stamens elongated and like a gynandrophore, c. 1 mm long. Disk lobes alternate with the stamens. Stamens 1½-2½ mm; anthers oblong, ½-⅔ mm long. Ovary broadly ellipsoid or obovoid, c. ½ mm ø; style 2½ mm; stigma slightly thicker than the style. Abortive pistil in ø c. ½4 mm long. Drupe ellipsoid, 2-2½ by 1½ cm; enlarged petals red when fresh, oblong-lanceolate, 3½ by 1-1½ cm.
Lowland forests, up to 500 m. Fl. Febr., May, Oct., Nov.; fr. Febr.-April, Sept.
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Lowland forests, at elevations up to 500 metres.
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