Shrub or small tree, 1.5–10 m high. Leaves glabrous; petiole 10–25 mm long; lamina elliptic, broadly elliptic to oblong-elliptic, 8–28 cm long, 6–8 cm wide, attenuate, cuneate to rounded at base, mostly entire (juvenile leaves prominently toothed), acute to mostly obtuse at apex; midrib prominent on both surfaces, flattened above, raised beneath. Male inflorescence axillary, sometimes ramiflorous (borne on twigs just behind leaves), 3.5–4 cm long, highly branched, (9–) 20–30-flowered; pedicels 7–9 mm long, glabrous. Male flowers ± campanulate, 3–5 mm diam.; tepals as 4 pairs around a distinct ostiole, glabrous; stamens as 2 (3) pairs, all the same size but reaching different heights because of placement; filaments long. Female inflorescence axillary, not as highly branched, c. 3.5 (–6) cm long, 3–9-flowered; pedicels 2–4 mm long, glabrous. Female flowers flattened-globose, 4–5 mm diam.; outer tepals as 2 pairs; carpels 40–50; ovary c. 1 mm high, glabrous to sparsely pubescent; stigma squat, flat. Fruiting receptacle enlarged, orange-yellow. Drupes globose to ovoid, 10–15 mm long, 8–12 mm wide, glossy black.
Grows in a variety of habitats, ranging from rainforest to dry sclerophyll woodland, often by streamsides, from sea-level to 550 m alt.
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