Tree up to 21 m, 40 cm ø. Twigs densely rusty tomentose or velvety, glabrescent. Leaves sparsely fine-hairy beneath, especially on midrib and nerves, to greyish tomentose or velvety. Free part of staminal tube 5-7 mm; anthers 20-60, in the upper 5 mm, on a very short (¼-½ mm) thin free part of the filaments. Fruit with ± woody mesocarp.
Evergreen primary and depleted lowland forest, 15-150 m; in Borneo often on low sandy ridges, raised beaches, and large sandy podsols (kerangas). Fl. April-May; fr.--01.