Small tree or shrub; branchlets minutely pubescent on the growing tips, glabrescent elsewhere, first red-brown, greyish-yellowish later, striate longitudinally. Leaves oblong or elliptic-oblong, shortly abruptly acuminate at the apex, acute at the base, subcoriaceous, entire or obscurely denticulate, rather dark reddish-brown and ± dull when dry, a little paler beneath, rather densely pellucid-punctate, but the dots sometimes difficult to observe in old leaves, glabrous above, ± densely pubescent by minute, patent hairs beneath on the midrib and nerves, ± glabrescent, 14-24 by (5-)6-10 cm; midrib little prominent above, strongly so beneath, nerves ± curved-ascending, flat or slightly impressed above, prominent beneath, veins distantly transverse somewhat prominent beneath only, veinlets rather obscure; petiole stout (c. 2.5 mm), 5-8 mm, subglabrous. Flowers white to yellowish, crowded in fascicles, these often at the nodes of fallen leaves. Bracts numerous, membranous, ovate, glabrous, c. 1 mm, forming a semiglobose cushion. Pedicels 1½-2 mm, pubescent. Calyx 4-5 mm, laxly appressed-pubescent outside, deeply 5-lobed. Stamens 8 (sometimes 7) equal; filaments filiform, glabrous, 1.8 mm; anthers ovate, 1 mm, apiculate by the protruding connective. Staminodes c. 1 mm, glabrous at the base, densely barbate in the upper half. Ovary elongate-ovoid, rather densely pilose. Fruit ellipsoid, laxly pilose, c. 1.5 cm long (perhaps not yet full ripe), red; peduncle pilose, 2 mm.
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