Trees 5–12 m tall. Branchlets brownish gray, stout, densely brown tomentose when young, glabrescent. Leaves in clusters at apices of branchlets; stipules caducous, not seen; petiole 2–4 cm, glabrous; leaf blade oblong or oblong-lanceolate to obovate-oblong, (9–)10–19 × (1.5–)3–7 cm, leathery, adaxially lustrous, midvein prominent on both surfaces, lateral veins 10–12 pairs, both surfaces initially shortly tomentose, soon glabrescent, base cuneate, margin remotely irregularly incurved-crenate, revolute, apex shortly caudate or acuminate. Panicle 6–8 cm in diam., many flowered; peduncle densely brown tomentose; bracts and bractlets lanceolate, 4–6 mm, abaxially tomentose. Pedicel 6–12 mm, densely brown tomentose. Flowers 1.5–1.8 cm in diam. Hypanthium cupular, abaxially brown tomentose. Sepals triangular-ovate, slightly shorter than hypanthium, ca. 1.2 cm, abaxially brown tomentose, adaxially glabrous, apex obtuse or acute. Petals white, orbicular or obovate, ca. 8 × 7 mm. Stamens 20. Ovary glabrous, 3–5-loculed, with 2 ovules per locule; styles 3–5, connate at base, pubescent. Pome yellowish red, subglobose, 1.2–2 cm in diam., glabrous; fruiting pedicel 7–12 mm, brown pubescent; sepals reflexed. Fl. May–Jun, fr. Jun–Aug.
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An evergreen tree. It grows 12-15 m high. The trunk is 25-30 cm across. The small branches are robust. The new growth is deep red. The flowers are white. The flower stalks are rusty brown. The fruit are 1-2.2 cm across. They are red-yellow.
A tropical plant. It grows in tropical and subtropical evergreen broad-leaved forests. It occurs on low hills below 1,000 m altitude in Vietnam. It needs to be frost free. In southern China it grows between 1,000-2,100 m above sea level. In Townsville palmetum.
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