Tree, 5-10 m high. Branches dilute greyish brown to dark brown and patchy pale grey to fawn, glabrous. Leaves: petiole 0.5-2 cm; blade lanceolate to ovate-lanceolate, 2.5-13 by 0.8-7 cm, margin entire, base obliquely truncate to broadly rounded, apex acute to acuminate, nerves 4-7 on each side, glabrous on both sides. Inflorescence sub-terminal to axillary, loosely corymbose with numerous branches, branches with long, stiff, patent hairs, flowers very numerous; pedicels 0.5-5 mm long. Calyx cup-shaped, later flattish salver-shaped, 1.2 mm long, 1.5 mm wide in flower, up to 4 mm in fruit, white pustulate on surface, ciliate along margin of lobes, lobes free beyond middle, triangular to oblong lanceolate. Corolla white, as long as calyx, tube slightly shorter than calyx, campanulate, limb 3.5 mm in diam., lobes explanate to slightly recurved, rounded, 1.3 by 1.1 mm. Stamens exserted. Pistil: style c. 1.5 mm long, divided for 2/3; stigmata subcapitate. Fruit globose, 2-2.5 mm in diam.
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