Glabrous shrub or tree to 5 m tall. Leaves narrowly elliptic to oblanceolate, mostly 8-10 cm long, acute or acuminate apically, acute basally, the margins entire and sometimes slightly revolute; petioles less than 4 mm long, channelled above and often verrucose. Inflorescence a cluster of solitary, subterminal flowers, each sometimes subtended by a pair of foliaceous bracts 1-4 cm long;