A small to medium-sized, deciduous shrub or tree up to 20 m tall; bole up to 50 cm in diameter; bark dark brown to blackish. Indumentum of stellate and simple hairs. Leaves distichous; petiole 0.5—1 cm long; blade elliptical to oblong, 8—17 cm x 4—8 cm, margin undulate to entire, apex acute, glabrous, tertiary venation scalariform and distinct below. Flowers in terminal and axillary cymes arranged paniculately, 5-merous, pale yellow; sepals free, obovate, about 4 mm long; petals free, glabrous, about half the size of the sepals; stamens many, with dorsifixed anthers; ovary superior, 2—4-locular, glabrous, style subulate. Fruit a globose to obovate drupe, about 1.5 cm x 1 cm, purplish, glabrous, with leathery pericarp.

As a vermifuge (roasted and boiled leaves)

PROSEA (Plant Resources of South-East Asia) Foundation
Bu zha ye, Complementary and Alternative Healing University

Used to cure indigestion, eczema, itches, typhoid fever, dysentery and syphilitic ulceration of the mouth (leaves); for colds, heat stroke, indigestion, dyspepsia, diarrhea and hepatitis (decoction of leaves).