Antidesma velutinum Tul. in Ann. Sci. Nat. Bot., Ser. III. 15: 223. 1851; Hook.f., Fl. Brit. India 5: 361. 1887; Chakrab. & M. Gangop. in J. Econ. Taxon. Bot. 24: 48, f. 22. 2000. A. cf. acuminatum sensu Chakrab. & N.P.Balakr. in J. Econ. Taxon. Bot., Addit. Ser. 9: 17. 1992, non Wight, 1853.

Shrubs or trees, 2 - 10 m tall; young shoots densely velutinous; branchlets velutinous or tomentose. Leaves elliptic to oblong-elliptic, acute, obtuse to rounded at base, acuminate or caudate or apiculate at apex, 5 - 18 x 2 - 8.5 cm, chartaceous to thinly coriaceous, sometimes glossy, tomentose on major nerves to subglabrous above, thinly tomentellous or pilose on major nerves beneath; lateral nerves 4 - 8 pairs; petioles 2 - 7 mm long; stipules linear or subulate, 3 – 7 x 1 – 1.5 mm, deciduous. Male inflorescences terminal and axillary, solitary, paired or 3 together, simple or few-branched, often aggregated into pseudo-panicles at the ends of branchlets, 5 - 10 cm long; flowers sessile to subsessile; calyx ca 0.6 x 1.2 mm, pilose outside; lobes 4, shallow, broadly triangular or suborbicular; disc 3-lobulate; stamens 3 or 4, 1 - 2 mm long; filaments inserted into pores at the corners of the disc; pistillode peltate. Female inflorescences terminal and axillary, solitary, paired or 3 together, simple or once-branched near base, 3 - 12 cm long; pedicels 0.5 - 1 mm long; calyx ca 1 x 1.5 - 2 mm, glabrous except the pilose tips of the segments; lobes 4, deep, deltoid, triangular or broadly ovate; ovary ovoid, 1 - 1.5 x 1 - 1.5 mm, appressed pilose or glabrous; styles terminal, ca 1 mm long, stout, recurved. Fruits ovoid, ovoid-ellipsoid or conic-ovoid, 5 - 8 x 3 - 5 mm, not compressed, glabrous, alveolate; style terminal; pedicels 0.5 - 1.5 mm long.

Fl. March - June; Fr. June - Nov.

Distrib. India: Near coasts, mixed forests, inland forests, at low altitudes, common. Andaman Islands.

Bangladesh, Myanmar, Cambodia, Thailand and Peninsular Malaysia.