Shrubs or small trees 3-6 m. Branchlets terete, slightly compressed at nodes when young, puberulent. Petiole 1.2-2 cm, puberulent; leaf blade elliptic or narrowly elliptic, rarely suborbicular, 5-9.5 × 2-4.5 cm, leathery, glabrous, adaxially shiny, base attenuate and decurrent into a winged petiole, apex short acuminate, rarely rounded; primary veins 5 or 6 on each side of midrib, distinctly raised. Panicles axillary, 2-4 cm, puberulent; peduncle 4-13 mm. Pedicel 0.5-2 mm. Calyx ca. 1.1 mm, glabrous; lobes ovate-deltate, ca. 0.4 mm. Corolla 2-2.4 mm; lobes oblong, 1.8-2.2 mm, united near base. Drupe pruinose, ellipsoid, 1.2-1.9 × 0.9-1.2 cm. Endosperm absent. Fl. Apr, fr. Aug.