Japan Flora: Evergreen much branched glabrous tree with pendant aerial roots from the trunks and branches; leaves coriaceous, oblong or obovate, 5-8 cm. long, 3-5 cm. wide, slightly cuspidate with an obtuse tip, obtuse or cuneately obtuse at base, entire, the lateral nerves not strong, rather many, parallel except the lowest pair, the petioles 7-20 mm. long; receptacles sessile, depressed-globose, about 8 mm. across, with 3 ovate-orbicular bracts at base.

Kyushu (Yakushima and Tancgashima). Ryukyus, Formosa, China to India, Malaysia, and Australia.