Trees, to 20 m tall. Branchlets terete or obtusely ridged. Petiole 5-8 mm; leaf blade ovate-lanceolate to narrowly lanceolate, 5-12 × 1-3.5 cm, leathery, adaxially dark with numerous oil glands, secondary veins numerous, ca. 3 mm apart, at an angle of 65°-70° from midvein, abaxially visible, and adaxially inconspicuous, intramarginal veins ca. 1.5 mm from margin, base broadly cuneate, apex caudate-acuminate and with a ca. 2 cm acumen. Inflorescences terminal, 3-flowered cymes arranged into panicles, 3-6 cm; peduncle ridged. Flower buds obovoid, 3-4 mm, basally cuneate, apically rounded. Hypanthium obconic, shortly stipitate. Calyx lobes inconspicuous, apical margins of hypanthium incurved. Petals white, distinct, ca. 1 mm. Stamens ca. 1 mm. Fruit blackish purple when ripe, globose, ca. 1.5 cm in diam., 1-seeded. Embryo with intrusive branching tissue extending into and interlocking cotyledons. Fl. Jul-Oct.
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A medium sized tree with many slender, round, smooth smaller branches. It is evergreen and grows 12-30 m high. The trunk is 60 cm across. It has small buttresses or stilt roots. The bark is grey or red brown. It is smooth but can be cracked. The leaves are papery. The leaves are scattered and opposite. They are oblong and sharply pointed at the tip but blunt at the base. They are 4.5-15 cm long by 1.5-5.5 cm wide. The midrib forms a channel on the upper surface. The flowering cluster is 3.5 cm long. The flowers are 4 mm across. The flowers are white or pale yellow. They do not have stalks. The stamens protrude. The fruit are red to black and fleshy. The fruit is hard and egg shaped sideways. The fruit are 1 cm across.
A sub-canopy or canopy tree in undisturbed to slightly disturbed sub-montane and montane forests at elevations up to 3,000 metres; growing on hillsides and ridges, usually with poor sandy to ultrabasic soils, but also on clay and limestone.
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A tropical plant. They are widely scattered in dry forests and along wooded river banks throughout the Philippines. In Vietnam it is mostly below 1,000 m altitude. It can grow in mixed forests up to 3,000 m above sea level.
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