Tree 1.5-5(-8) m, shrub-like in habit; branches rigid, crookedly rebranched, divaricate, the tips short brownish-hirsute, soon covered with whitish cork. Leaves elliptic or elliptic-oblong or ovate-oblong, rather abruptly and shortly (1-1.5 cm) obtusely or acutely acuminate at the apex, cuneate at the base, equilateral, rigidly chartaceous to subcoriaceous, entire or obscurely remotely dentate, very minutely pellucid-punctulate or practically impunctate, sublucid and pale grey-olivaceous when dry, dull and somewhat paler beneath, (6-) 8-15(-18) by (4-)5-7(-10) cm; midrib flat or slightly immersed above in dry specimens, strongly prominent beneath, nerves c. 5-6(-8) on each side, ascending, their ends strongly curved upward, little prominent only beneath, veins laxly reticulate and little raised on both sides; petiole rather stout, manifestly grooved above, glabrous, (4-)6-9(-15) mm, dull reddish-brown when alive. Flowers white or cream, fragrant, in 4-12-flowered glomerules chiefly from the axils of fallen leaves. Bracts very unequal in size and shape, the outer ovate, subacute, densely appressed-pubescent, glabrescent with age, the inner ones thinner. Pedicels stoutish, pubescent, +-2 mm at anthesis, later elongating up to 4 mm. Calyx 2.5-3 mm, densely pubescent outside, nearly glabrous inside, deeply 5-lobed, manifestly pellucid-punctate and-striate. Stamens 8, equal in length; filaments filiform, glabrous, 1.2-1.5 mm. Staminodes nearly rectangular, thick, densely hirsute, nearly as long as the filaments. Ovary conical-ovoid, laxly pilose. Fruit subglobose to ellipsoid, trigonous to the apex, c. 2 cm long, c. 1.5 cm diam., bright red, subtended by the accrescent calyx-lobes; peduncle rather slender, subglabrous, c. 1 cm.
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