A slender shrub that grows 2–8m high. Sapwood is pale orange. Bark is gray and smooth. Inner bark is green. Stems are grayish-brown and minutely scaly. Leaves are simple, spathulate, papery, glossy above, crenate, wavy, and with yellowish nervations; midrib is flat above; petiole is grayish-green, minutely scaly, 3.5–6cm long, and slender; blade is 26cm × 8.5cm – 21.5cm × 7.2cm, thinly coriaceous, with 17–20 pairs of secondary nerves and scalariform tertiary nerves, both of which are prominent below; base is cordate to auriculate, margin is wavy, and apex is cuminate. Inflorescences are axillary spikes or racemes that are 13.5cm long; flower buds are cream-colored; flowers are khaki to yellow. Fruits are 3-lobed, 1.1cm × 2.2cm, and each lobe is 5mm in diameter; are green, covered with a few light brown scales, dusty white or powdered, dehiscent and 3-seeded

Antimicrobial (leaves)

PROSEA (Plant Resources of South-East Asia) Foundation

Used externally to soothe inflammation, swollen limbs and for treatment of skin diseases (decoction of leaves and bark); to counteract snake poisoning and to mitigate stomachache (bark); used as eyedrops for inflamed or irritated eyes (sap from the bark).

Christophe Wiart. Medicinal Plants of Asia and the Pacific, P:222-223, CRC Press, June 2006.