Uvaria acuminata Oliv.

Much-branched aromatic shrub, small tree or liane 1.8–9 m. long or tall; branchlets with rather coarse granular stellate and often simple hairs when young, later glabrescent or glabrous, blackish, wrinkled and lenticellate.. Leaf-blades oblanceolate, obovate or oblong, (0.7–)3–8(–12) cm. long, (0.5–)1.3–3.9(–4.9) cm. wide, mostly distinctly acuminate at the apex or less often obtuse, rounded or more usually cordate at the base, somewhat coriaceous, above mostly deep green and sparsely pubescent with simple or stellate hairs or glabrous save on midrib, sparsely to densely covered with coarse openly spaced ferruginous stellate hairs beneath and with simple hairs on the nerves, rarely glabrous beneath; lateral nerves slightly impressed above; venation reticulate, usually prominent on both surfaces; petiole l–2.5(–4) cm. long, stellate-pubescent.. Flowers terminal or extra-axillary, solitary or in 2-flowered cymes, hanging; peduncle ± 2–3 mm. long; pedicels0.5–2 cm. long, stellate-tomentose; bracts oblong, 2–3 mm. long, 1 mm. wide; bracteoles minute, 1 mm. long, soon deciduous.. Sepals ovate or ovate-triangular, 4–6 mm. long and wide, obtuse to acute, shortly united at the base, often remaining as a loose persistent collar, completely covering the petals in bud, pubescent with coarse ferruginous stellate hairs.. Petals white or yellow, oblong or oblong-lanceolate, subequal, 0.6–1.3 cm. long, 3–6 mm. wide, acute or obtuse, thin or slightly fleshy, puberulous on both surfaces with stellate hairs.. Stamens ± 1 mm. long; connective-prolongation broadened, truncate.. Carpels mostly 20–25.. Fruiting pedicels 1–2 cm. long; monocarps orange, 5–15, globose or ovoid, 0.8–1.6 cm. long and wide, l–4(–?6)-seeded, not constricted between the seeds, obtuse, densely tomentose with ferruginous or brown hairs, rugose or verrucose; stipes 2–3 mm. long.. Seeds shining brown, irregularly compressed-ovoid or shaped like the segment of an orange, 7–8 mm. long, 4–5 mm. wide, 3–4 mm. thick, usually with at least one sharp angle, with a paler irregularly quadrate arillar collar.. Fig. 2/2, p. 11.

Thickets, bushland and dry scrubby forest, also in wetter evergreen forest or woodland, predominantly coastal, at elevations from sea level to 800 metres.

The ripe fruit are eaten raw. The seeds are discarded. The fruit are squeezed into water to make a drink.

Plants can be grown from seeds.