Antidesma velutinosum Blume, Bijdr. Fl. Ned. Ind. 1125. 1826 - 27; Hook.f., Fl. Brit. India 5: 356. 1887; Chakrab. & M. Gangop. in J. Econ. Taxon. Bot. 24: 44, f. 21. 2000. A. roxburghii Wall. ex Tul. in Ann. Sci. Nat. Bot., Ser. III, 15: 234. 1851; Hook.f., l. c. 357. 1887; Kanjilal et al., Fl. Assam. 4: 166. 1940. Stilago tomentosa Roxb., Fl. Ind., ed. Carey 3: 757. 1832, non Antidesma tomentosum Blume, 1823.

Shrubs or trees, 1 - 13 m tall; branchlets villous or tomentellous. Leaves narrowly oblong, oblong-elliptic, obovate-elliptic to broadly obovate, acute, obtuse, rounded to narrowly cordate at base, caudate or acuminate at apex, (8 -) 10 - 26 x (2 -) 4 - 12 cm, thinly coriaceous to chartaceous, villous to sparsely pubescent only on major nerves above, pilose to tomentose all over or villous, hirsute or pilose only on major nerves beneath; petioles 2.5 - 10 (-25) mm long, 1.5 - 3 mm thick. Male inflorescences terminal and axillary, simple, often tending to be aggregated into terminal pseudo-panicles, solitary, paired or 3 together, 5 - 12 cm long, dense-flowered; bracts linear, 2 - 3 mm long, long-pilose and giving comose appearance to the young inflorescences. Flowers: pedicels ca 0.5 mm long; calyx ca 1 x 1.5 - 2.5 mm; lobes 4 - 6, deep, linear, lanceolate or subulate; disc plano-convex, ca 1 mm in diam.; stamens 4 - 5 (-7), 2 - 3 mm long; filaments embedded into pits of the disc; pistillode columnar, ca 0.5 mm long. Female inflorescences terminal and axillary, simple or once branched near base, solitary or in pairs, 8 - 21 cm long, dense-flowered. Flowers: pedicels 0.5 - 3 mm long; calyx ca 1 x 1.5 - 2 mm; lobes 5 or 6, linear-lanceolate, ca 1 mm long; or sometimes 3 or 4, suborbicular and ca 0.5 mm across; ovary subglobose or ovoid, ca 1.2 mm in diam., tomentose or villous; styles slightly lateral, stout, 1 - 1.5 mm long, bifid halfway or almost to base or sometimes only notched at the tips, recurved. Fruits suborbicular to lenticular, compressed, 5 - 7 x 4 - 5 mm, puberulous or glabrous in age, alveolate; style subterminal to lateral; pedicels 0.5 - 5 mm long.

Fl. Nov. - July; Fr. Dec. - Sept.

Distrib. India: Evergreen primary forests, up to 1500 m altitude. Assam, Arunachal Pradesh, Nagaland and Tripura.

Bangladesh, Myanmar, Thailand, Laos, Malaysia, Java, Sumatra, Anambas and Natuna Islands.