Erect shrubs to small trees, 4-10(-18) m tall, unarmed; branches glabrous, somewhat compressed becoming terete. Leaves borne along developed stems; petiole 5-8 mm, glabrous; blade drying thinly to thickly papery, ovate to ovate-oblong or elliptic-oblong, 9-19 × 4-8.5 cm, adaxially shiny and glabrous or sometimes pustulose, abaxially glabrous to pilosulous or pilose, base obtuse to rounded, apex shortly acuminate; secondary veins 6-8 pairs, in abaxial axils with small foveolate domatia; stipules deciduous, shortly united around stem, triangular, 2-8 mm, sparsely pilosulous to glabrous, keeled, cuspidate to acuminate. Inflorescences corymbiform to cymose, 2.5-3 × ca. 2 cm, several flowered, puberulent to hirtellous; peduncle 10-14 mm; bracts reduced; pedicels 2-3 mm. Calyx puberulent to glabrous; ovary portion obconic to hemispherical, 1-1.5 mm; limb ca. 0.5 mm, 5-lobed; lobes broadly ovate-triangular, acute. Corolla white, urceolate-tubular, outside glabrous; tube 1.5-2 mm, inside villous in throat; lobes 5, triangular to spatulate, 1.5-3 mm, acute. Ovary 2-locular; stigma ca. 1.2 mm. Infructescences expanded, to 7 × 9 cm; fruiting pedicels to 12 mm. Drupes with color not noted, obovoid, laterally compressed, often somewhat dicoccous, 10-20 × 9-15 mm, glabrescent, with calyx limb deciduous; pyrenes 2, plano-convex. Fl. Jan-Mar, fr. Jun-Jul.