Tree up to 30 m, 50 cm Ø, rarely a shrub. Bark dark, cracked. Twigs puberulous, glabrescent, tapering off towards the apex, thick, at least 5 mm Ø beneath the leaves and there usually with many pulvinate leaf-scars. Leaves crowded towards the end of the twigs, rounded or cuneate-obtuse at the apex, with cuneate, attenuate base and entire, revolute margin, glabrous (except in innovations and then puberulous), narrowly elliptic to obovate, 9-22 by 2½-7(-9) cm; nerves 11-15 pairs; petiole 2-4 cm. Many spikes from old wood beneath the leaves, axis densely rusty appressedly puberulous, glabrescent, 4-15 cm long. Bracts and bracteoles with same indument, persistent under the fruit, 1ll2- long. Calyx with same indument, becoming glabrous towards the apex, 2-3 mm, the lobes c. 2 mm long. Corolla 8-10 mm. Stamens 50 to more than 100. Disk glabrous, annular, and then surrounding a lower, rarely shortly pilose receptacle, or low pulvinate, only surrounding the glabrous, 7-9 mm long style. Ovary with same indument as calyx, c. 2 mm high. Fruit ellipsoid, c. 10 by 7 mm in vivo; stone rather smooth, with few shallow lengthwise grooves, 8-10 by 4-5 mm (s.s. the whole fruit as big as the stone), 3-celled. Seed 1 in each cell with straight embryo.
Secondary and primary forest, almost always on sandstone, granite, kerangas, sandy flats, more rarely on sandy loam, at low altitude, below c. 300 m, once found in montane forest (Luzon: Sierra Madre) at 1000-1100 m in low, mixed, primary rainforest (JACOBS 7840). Fl. Sept.-March; fr. Febr.-June (July-Oct.). The flowers are faintly fragrant, especially at night.
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Primary forests, the more open secondary formations and kerangas forest; on flat or undulating land, hillsides or ridges, sometimes near streams, rocky cliffs by the sea; groing on poor, well-drained sandy or rocky soils; at elevations to 170 metres.
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