Drypetes venusta is an evergreen tree species endemic to the Western Ghats, India.

[2] They are large trees with smooth, straight, and white trunk and horizontal branches.

Leaf base is oblique, and apex is acute or shortly acuminate.

The female flowers are axillary, seen either solitary or in pairs, with pedicel length up to 6 cm.

[3] This is a common tree in low and medium elevation evergreen forests of Western Ghats from Lonavala to Thiruvananthapuram.