Shrub or small tree to 6 m high. Branchlets angular, pilose and minutely stellate, rarely densely stellate-lepidote. Leaves thin, ovate to elliptic or broadly elliptic, 30–60 mm long, 7–12 mm wide, narrowly cuneate at base, obtuse, coriaceous, 5-nerved, ±glabrous. Flowers sparse; pedicel 4–8 mm long, thickened upwards, silky-stellate. Sepals very broadly ovate, 1–1.5 mm long, silvery stellate-lepidote, verrucose. Petals elliptic, c. 7 × 3 mm, white, silvery silky-stellate. Stamens: filaments linear-attenuate, densely ciliate; apex swollen, verrucose; anthers c. 0.8 mm long, obtuse (not apiculate). Ovary glabrous or pilose; style pilose. Cocci c. 7 mm high, shortly rostrate.
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