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Female flower delicately scented; calyx 2.5–3 mm in diameter, 6-lobed, the lobes c. 1 mm long, broadly triangular, swollen at the base, sparingly pubescent to glabrous without, with a ring of hairs within; ovary 4–5 × 3–4 mm, ellipsoid-subglobose, 3(4)-locular, smooth, sparingly pubescent towards the apex, pale greenish-yellow; styles 3(4), 3–4 mm long, usually deeply 3-lobed, the lobes laciniate, flattened, smooth, pubescent at the base, pale greenish-yellow.
Fruits 1.8–2.3 × 1.5–1.7 cm, ovoid-subglobose, ± smooth, greenish, later turning pale yellow. Pyrenes 3(4), 1.25–1.3 cm × 7.5–8 mm × 3–4 mm, compressed-ellipsoid, slightly apiculate at the apex, rounded at the base, without keel, grooves or lobes, smooth, entire, thin.
Male flowers: calyx lobes 5, c. 1 mm long, acute, subglabrous; tube 0.5 mm long; stamens 5, filaments 1.5 mm long, flattened, anthers 0.5 mm long, cream-coloured; pistillode 1.5 mm high, cylindric-obconic, sparingly pubescent.
Male peduncles 1–2.5 cm long, minutely bracteolate; inflorescence bracts 10–11, (5)9–12 × (3)5–6 mm, oblong-oblanceolate, rounded, minutely crenulate to subentire, glabrous, pale yellow; head 7 mm in diameter.
Stem up to c. 1 m in diameter, unbranched up to 8 m, with stilt roots up to 2.5 m; bark smooth, developing rectangular cracks when old, pale grey with brown lenticels; wood pinkish, soft, fibrous.
Young twigs usually fairly slender, glabrous, but sometimes apparently lepidote owing to the minutely fracturing greyish waxy pruina.
Leaves petiolate, the petioles on the crown shoots 1–5 cm long, but up to 10 cm long on sucker shoots.
Female peduncles 0.5–1.5 cm long; bracteoles and bracts fewer than in the male flowers.
Seeds 9 × 5 × 2.5 mm, resembling the pyrenes in shape, smooth, greyish.
Inflorescences and fruits borne among and immediately below the leaves.
An evergreen tree up to 30 m high with an open spreading crown.
Stipules absent.
