[1] Friedrich Miquel, the Dutch botanist who first formally described the species using the basionym Orophea pamattonis, named it after a mountain in Borneo called Gunung Pamaton.

The young, yellow to gray-brown branches are slightly to densely hairy and also have sparse lenticels.

Its sparsely to very densely hairy petioles are 4-13 by 1–2.5 millimeters with a broad groove on their upper side.

Its Inflorescences occur in groups of 2–7 on branches, and are organized on indistinct peduncles.

The white to yellow, oval, outer petals are 1-2 by 1-2 millimeters with hairless upper and densely hairy lower surfaces.

The fruit occur in clusters of 1–5 on sparsely to densely hairy pedicles that are 9-13 by 1–2.5 millimeters.

[6] It has been observed growing in limestone and clay soils in lowland and mountain forests at elevations of 70–670 meters.