Dioecious liana, shrub, or up to c. 5 m high treelet. Branches densely fulvous-tomentose to-velutinous when young, glabrescent, greyish to purplish brown. Leaves elliptic to lanceolate, 9-28 by 3-11 cm, pergamentaceous to chartaceous, above glabrous to hairy on midrib and nerves, beneath sparsely to densely appressed-pilose at least on midrib and nerves; glands few, on the lower side, mainly near the base; base acute to rounded; margin minutely crenulate to entire; apex acuminate, acumen short, broad, and blunt to long, slender, and acute; nerves 7-16 pairs, slightly to strongly curved, at least the upper ones distinctly looped and joined. Flowers (only male buds known) axillary, 1 or 2, subsessile, or in short-stalked, few-to several-flowered glomerules, in vivo pale pink. Calyx densely ferruginous-tomentose. Petals ovate, slightly emarginate, outside (margin excepted) and inside at the base long-pilose. Disk annular, adnate to the stamens. Pistillode patently stilf-pilose. Fruits solitary, short-stalked, triangular-ovoid, c. 3 by 2.5-3 cm, smooth to tuberculate, densely and shortly ferruginous-tomentose, glabrescent, without sutures, in vivo orange when ripe, 3 (-1)-celled; stones free, woody, strongly corrugated.
In forests, from sea-level to 1800 m. Fl. and fr. Oct.-Nov.. Fl. Febr., Oct.-Nov., fr. March-April, Oct.-Nov.
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