Tree or shrub, 1.2-15.0 m high; white-grey bark. Leaves broadly ovate to elliptic, discolorous, glossy green below, glabrous except for domatia in axils of principal lateral veins below, margins wavy; petioles light green. Flowers simple, in lax panicles, white. Ovary 2-loculed, with a single basal ovule in each locule; style 2-lobed. Flowering time all year. Fruit ovoid, up to 10 mm long, red.