Trees 2-10 m tall. Bark pale. Leaves glabrous; petiole 2-5 mm; leaf blade ovate, ± lanceolate, lanceolate, or oblong, 5-13 × 2.5-6 cm, ± leathery to papery, base cuneate to obtuse, apex acute to acuminate; veins 4-9 on each side of midvein. Panicles 1 or 2 fascicled, 4-20 cm; bracts ovate to lanceolate, ca. 0.5 mm, apex acute. Bisexual flower: pedicel 1-5 mm; tepals oblong, 1.5-1.7 mm; filaments filiform; anthers ovoid, ca. 0.3 mm; disk crenulate; ovary conic, ca. 0.5 mm. Female flowers: pedicel ca. 0.5 mm; tepals ca. 0.5 mm; staminodes ca. 0.2 mm; disk lobes smaller than staminodes; ovary cylindric to ovoid, ca. 0.5 mm; stigma cushion-shaped. Drupe orange-red or red, ellipsoid, 1-2.5 × 0.7-1.7 cm; pedicel 1.5-5 mm. Fl. Feb-Jun, fr. Feb-Jul.

Forests, thickets, hills, valleys, slopes, along seashores; sea level to 1300 m. Guangxi, Taiwan, Yunnan [India (Andaman and Nicobar Islands), Indonesia, Malaysia, Myanmar, New Guinea, Philippines, Thailand, Vietnam].