Trees or shrubs to 15 m tall; trunk to 0.5 m d.b.h. Bark gray-white, gray, yellowish brown, gray-brown, or brown, spotted. Branchlets gray or brown, slender, longitudinally corrugated, yellow orbicular lenticellate, glabrous. Leaves alternate or subopposite, grouped at apices of branchlets; petiole 1-2.4 cm, apex (or leaf blade base) without glands; leaf blade green abaxially, deep green adaxially, oblong-elliptic to broadly elliptic, ovate, obovate, or sometimes suborbicular, 4-11 × 2.5-5.5 cm, with glands near margin, glabrous, puberulous on midvein, or abaxially thinly pilose when young, base truncate, rounded, or obtuse, apex mucronate or acuminate, rarely retuse; lateral veins in (6-)8-10 pairs. Inflorescences terminal and axillary spikes, many grouped at branchlet apex and forming a panicle 4-8 cm; axes densely deep yellow and red tomentose. Flowers fragrant. Calyx tube distally cupular, ca. 1.5 mm, abaxially usually glabrous, rarely minutely tomentose, adaxially densely white long hairy; lobes 4 or 5. Stamens 8-10, exserted, 3-4.5 mm. Fruit not or scarcely stipitate, green tinged with red, scarlet, deep brown, black and purple, or green-purple when ripe, ellipsoid or obovoid, 3-winged, (1.5-)2-3.5 × (1-)1.5-2 cm, glabrous, base broadly obtuse to oblique and rounded; wings subleathery, transversely striate, margin shallowly undulate, apical part obtusely deltoid, extending 5-8 mm beyond seed-bearing part of fruit. Fl. May-Sep, fr. Jul-Feb.
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A shrub or small tree. It grows 15 m tall. The bark is white to grey. The small branches are slender and have indented lines along them. The leaves are alternate. They are grouped at the tips of branches. Leaves are green are darker above. They are oval and 4-11 cm long by 3-6 cm wide. The flowering shoots are the ends of branches and in the axils of leaves. There are many flowers in a group and they have a scent. The fruit are green with a red tinge. They can become red to purple when ripe. They are oval and have 3 wings. The fruit are 2-4 cm long by 2 cm wide.
Deciduous forests. Forests, mixed forests, woods, sparse woods, thickets, mountains, seashores, dry sandy seashores; at elevations from sea level to 500 metres.
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A tropical plant. It grows in forests and can be from the seashore to the mountains up to 500 m above sea level.
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