Trees up to 15 m tall, glabrous except for rufous pubescent branchlets, stipules, abaxial leaf surface, pedicels, and sepals. Stipules linear-lanceolate to triangular, 4-6(-10) mm; petiole 4-10 mm; leaf blade elliptic-ovate, oblong, or obovate, 5-15 × 2.5-7.5 cm, membranous or thickly papery, base acute, obtuse, or often truncate, apex acute to acuminate; lateral veins 7-12(-18) pairs. Flowers monoecious, many-flowered fascicles with up to 50 flowers, axillary; bracts very small; pedicel distinct 1.5-5 mm. Male flowers white, 3.5-5 mm in diam., sepals lanceolate to triangular, up to 2 mm; petals obovate, lanceolate, or spatulate, ca. 0.8 mm, margin 3-5-toothed; disk pulvinate or saucer-shaped, to 2 mm in diam.; staminal column ca. 1 mm; filaments free for ca. 1 mm; anthers ovoid, 0.5-0.6 × 0.3-0.4 mm; rudimentary ovary conical. Female flowers: sepals triangular, up to 2.3 mm; petals obovate, shorter than sepals; disk urceolate enclosing ovary for ca. 0.5 mm, apex laciniate; ovary globose to ovoid; styles 2, ca. 1.2 mm, connate at base, bifid. Drupes ellipsoidal, 6-11 mm, base with persistent sepals, apex with mucro, 1-celled, stalk usually slender. Seeds ellipsoid with shallow lateral groove, 4-7 × 3-4.5 mm, light brown, rugulate. Fl. Mar-Sep, fr. Sep-Dec.
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A tree. It grows 25 m tall. The trunk can be 45 cm across. The leaves are alternate and simple. The often have slightly heart shaped base. The upper and lower surfaces are different colours. The flowers are 3 mm across. They are green to yellow. They are in dense bundles in the axils of leaves. The fruit are about 8 mm long. They are red to purple. They are a capsule with red seeds.
Primary and secondary forests, often near rivers; reported from well-drained volcanic as well as from sandy, loamy, or clayey soil; over sandstone, limestone, grey schists, or granite; scattered to common; at elevations up to 1,500 metres.
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It is a tropical plant. It grows in open sites in forests. It can grow up to 2,000 m above sea level. In Yunnan.
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