Trees, 10-15(-20) m tall. Branchlets blackish brown, compressed, conspicuously angled, sparsely pubescent or subglabrous. Terminal buds small, densely gray-brown pubescent. Leaves opposite, sometimes alternate; petiole 1.5-2 cm, slender; leaf blade elliptic, narrowly elliptic, or elliptic-lanceolate, 9-14 × 3.5-5 cm, papery or subleathery, minutely glandular-punctate on both surfaces, midrib abaxially elevated, adaxially slightly elevated, lateral veins 10-15 pairs, slender, interconnected on leaf margin, abaxially elevated and reddish, reticulate veins slender, always inconspicuous, base broadly cuneate or subrotund, apex obtuse, obtusely acuminate, acute, or subrotund. Cymose panicles or racemes terminal or axillary, short, 5-15 cm, wholly densely gray-yellow pubescent. Pedicels ca. 1 mm. Flowers small. Perianth segments ovate, ca. 1.5 mm. Fertile stamens 9. Fruits ellipsoid, 4-5 × 2-3 cm, smooth, subrounded at both ends, apex mucronate; fruiting pedicels robust, 5-20 mm, up to 7 mm in diam., always brown maculate. Fl. and fr. Aug.
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A large tree which loses its leaves. It grows 10-15 m tall. The small branches are flattened and angled. The leaves are opposite. They are narrowly oval and 9-14 cm long by 4-5 cm wide. The fruit are purple to black. They are oval and 4-5 cm long by 2-3 cm wide.
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