Shrub or small tree, 7.5 m high, 60 cm in diam., bark smooth, grey, inner bark yellowish, sapwood white yellowish. Leaves narrowly elliptic, apex acuminate, base cuneate, 7-10 by 2.2-2.9 cm, coriaceous, green on both surfaces, veins delicately reticulate and prominent on both surfaces, with 4-or 5 pairs of obscure lateral veins; petioles 0.8-2 cm long. Staminate inflorescences unknown. Pistillate inflorescences 2.5 cm long; calyx 4-or 5-lobed, lobes triangular, caducous, styles recurved or circinnate; pedicels c. 2 mm long. Fruiting axes 2.5-4.5 cm long, 1 mm thick. Drupes ovoidal, 7 mm long, 6 mm thick without calyx, green and red brown when ripe; fruit stalks 4-5 mm long, 1 mm thick.
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