Trees or shrubs, evergreen, 3–12 m tall. Bark dark gray or dark brown; old branches grayish brown, glabrous, often without lenticels. Leaf blade elliptic to narrowly elliptic, 6–10 × 2.7–5 cm, subleathery or leathery, abaxially when young sparsely pubescent with white or brown short appressed trichomes, often glabrous in age, axils of veins with clusters of dark brown Y-shaped long trichomes, veins 3(or 4), conspicuous. Inflorescences greenish yellow, ca. 1 cm in diam., ca. 40-flowered; bracts at first yellowish green, later creamy white, broadly elliptic or broadly obovate, 2–4 × 1–3.5 cm, glabrous. Calyx tube ca. 0.9 mm, with brown trichomes at base. Petals narrowly elliptic or narrowly ovate, 2.8–3 × ca. 1 mm, outside sparsely pubescent. Filaments ca. 2.2 mm, glabrous; anthers brown, ovoid-ellipsoid, ca. 1 mm. Style ca. 1.3 mm, pubescent with white trichomes. Compound fruit red at maturity, 2–2.5 cm in diam., peduncle 3.7–9.5 cm. Fl. May–Jun, fr. Oct–Nov.
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A tree. It grows 3-12 m tall. It keeps its leaves throughout the year. The bark is dark grey. The leaves are narrowly oval and 6-10 cm long by 3-5 cm wide. Underneath they can have a few hairs. The flowering shoots are greenish yellow and 1 cm across. There are about 40 flowers. The fruit is compound and red when mature. It is 2-2.5 cm across.
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