Shrub or small tree, up to 3 m; branchlets slender, softly ferrugineous-tomentose initially, soon glabrescent and covered with greyish-yellowish cork. Leaves oblong to oblong-lanceolate, gradually tapering into an acute apex, broadly cuneate at the base, firmly chartaceous, brownish-olivaceous when dry, glabrous above except the midrib, softly brownish-tomentose all over the undersurface, very densely so on the midrib and the nerves, entire, with rather numerous fine, pellucid points, pellucid lines few or absent, 20-29 by 7-10 cm; midrib not or little raised above, prominent beneath, nerves curved-ascending rather obscure above, prominent and paler beneath, veins ± transverse, inconspicuous above, lax and little raised beneath; petiole robust (1.5 mm diam.), tomentose, c. 5 mm long. Flowers solitary, 2.52} 12 mm. Staminodes villose towards the apex, 1.5 mm. Ovary ovoid, subgla-brous, 3 mm. Fruit pink to red, c. 2.5 by 1.5 cm, glabrous, resinous dots well visible in the epidermis with a lens; peduncle 2-3 mm, slender, pubescent.
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