Evergreen trees up to 18 m tall, to 40 cm d.b.h.; bark red-brown, smooth; plants glabrous except for sparsely pubescent young branches and juvenile fruits and densely hirsute ovary. Stipules ovate-triangular, ca. 0.5 mm, often caducous; petiole 2-7 mm; leaf blade ovate or elliptic, 3-10(-15) × 2-5(-7) cm, papery or stiffly papery, abaxially glaucous or dull, base obtuse to rounded, apex caudate; lateral veins (4 or)5-7(-8) pairs, slightly obscure. Flowers in axillary few-flowered fascicles (up to ca. 7), subtended by normal leaves, or on smaller-leaved or spikelike leafless axes; bracts triangular. Male flowers: sepals 5, ovate-lanceolate, ca. 2 mm; petals 5, obovate, ca. 0.8 mm; disk annular; rudimentary ovary 3-angled. Female flowers: sepals 5, ovate-lanceolate, 2-3 mm; petals 5, obovate, ca. 1 mm; disk cylindric, nearly as long as ovary; ovary ovoid to globose; styles 3, bifid. Capsules red, ovoid-trigonous, ca. 1 × 1 cm; carpodermis thin, 3-valved when mature. Seeds usually 1, subglobose to ovoid, up to 6 mm. Fl. Mar-Aug, fr. Apr-Oct.
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A shrub or tree. It grows 20 m tall. The leaves are leathery and egg-shaped and green above and pale green underneath. They are 2-10 cm long by 1-4 cm wide. The flowers are in clusters of up to 7 in the axils or on the branches. The fruit are purplish-red and 1 cm across. There can be up to 2 brown seeds in each section of the fruit.
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