Treelet or shrub up to 6 m; young branches slender, the tips densely tawny-velvety. Leaves oblong or oblong-lanceolate, 1-1.5 cm acutely acuminate at the apex, narrowed to rounded at the base, membranous to thinly chartaceous, densely pellucid-punctate and-striate, the upper surface glabrescent except the midrib and nerves, lower surface ± sparsely soft-pubescent, densely so to velvety on the midrib and nerves beneath, entire, olivaceous or brownish when dry 5-10(-12) by (2-)3-4 cm; midrib and nerves flat above or nearly so, little prominent beneath; nerves 8-10 pairs, rather straight and little curved upwards, veins densely transverse, little raised on both faces; petiole tomentose, 6-8 mm long, c. 1 mm thick. Flowers pale-greenish, in few-flowered glomerules, these somewhat growing out with age to very short (2 mm) axes, on very short (c. 0.5 mm) pedicels. Bracts minute, ovate-acute, 0.5 mm, appressed-pubescent. Calyx puberulous outside, glabrous inside, in all 1.5 mm long, deeply 5-lobed. Stamens 10; filaments very shortly pubescent to nearly glabrous, alternately 0.5 and 0.3 mm. Staminodes 0.5 mm, villous. Ovary ovoid, glabrous, 1 mm. Fruit almost sessile, glabrous, nearly globose, orange or yellow when ripe, c. 1.2 by 0.8 cm. Seeds with crimson aril.
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