Small tree up to 10 m. Young branches sometimes rusty-pubescent. Leaves usually of one kind (rarely with a few small, stipule-like ones appressed to the twig), falcately elliptic to slightly rhomboid, thinly coriaceous, rather silvery in living condition, shining on both surfaces, glabrous, sometimes with a few scattered, appressed, brownish hairs on both surfaces and especially on the main nerves and veins, 4-15.5 by 1.5-6 cm, acuminate, base obliquely cuneate; longitudinal nerves usually 5, rarely the middle one forked, middle 3 prominent and elevated beneath, depressed or plane above, marginal 2 slightly elevated below, visible or obscure above; cross-veinlets distinctly prominent-scalariform beneath, faintly depressed on the upper surface. Inflorescences racemose or spike-like, 1-7 cm long. Flowers polygamous, brownish pubescent outside. Male flowers 1 mm pedicelled, minutely bracteate at the base. Calyx lobes 4(-5), ovate, c. 1 mm long, acute. Petals 3-fid at the apex, ¾ mm long; stamens c. 0.5 mm. Disk deeply lobed. Pistil rudiments conical. Bisexual flowers sessile or subsessile, cylindric, c. 2 mm long. Calyx lobes 0.5 the length of the calyx, deltoid, acute. Petals 3-fid at the apex. Stamens 8, equal in length. Styles conical, c. 0.75 mm, rusty hairy at the base; stigmas subcapitate. Fruits ellipsoid, obtuse on both ends, 1.5-2 by 1.25-1.75 cm; pericarp woody, persistent, 1.5 mm diam.; calyx lobes reflexed. Seeds ellipsoid, 1.5 by 1 cm.
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