An evergreen, dioecious or monoecious tree 6-35 (60) m tall, with a finely branched crown. Trunk straight, cylindrical, usually branchless for up to 10 m, up to 100 (max. 150) cm in diameter, occasionally with buttresses. Bark light greyish-brown, smooth on young trunks, rough, thick, furrowed and flaking into oblong pieces on older trees. Leaves reduced to minute teeth, in whorls of 7—8 per node. Flowers unisexual; perianth absent, replaced by 2 bracteoles; male flowers in a terminal, simple, elongated spike, 7-40 mm long, borne in whorls with 7-11.5 whorls/cm of spike, with a single stamen; female inflorescence on a short lateral branchlet, cylindrical, cone-shaped or globose, 10-24 x 9-13 mm; bracteoles more acute, more or less protruding from the surface of the cone. Fruit a samara, 6—8 mm long, 1-seeded, dull brown. Seed with epigeal germination.

Stomachic (roots)

PROSEA (Plant Resources of South-East Asia) Foundation

Used to treat dysentery, diarrhoea and stomach ache (roots); for treating swellings (decoction of the twigs); for treating facial pimples (powdered bark).