Tree to 10 m high; branchlets glabrous. Leaves: lamina elliptic, ovate, oblong-ovate or obovate, acutely cuneate or attenuate base, ± pungently serrate or subentire margin, obtuse to slightly acuminate apex, 3–9 cm long, 1.3–3 cm wide, slightly recurved, coriaceous, glabrous; secondary veins 5–8 pairs; petiole 2–5 mm long. Racemes axillary or lateral; pedicels 1.8–2.5 mm long. Sepals 5, rarely 4, broadly ovate, ± dentate, c. 0.8 mm long. Petals 5, rarely 4, oblong-ovate, 1.6–2 mm long. Stamens 5, rarely 4; filaments 0.5–0.7 mm long. Disc c. 1.2 mm diam. Ovary glabrous, 2-locular; style 0.7–0.8 mm long; stigma 2-lobed. Capsule globular or obovoid, 5–8 mm long, 4–5 mm diam., 2-valved. Seeds 1 or 2, surrounded by aril.
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