Tree, up to 30 m by 50 cm, or erect shrub, sometimes epiphytic. Leaves petioled, elliptic-to oblong-obovate to oblong, 5-15 by 2.5-7.5 cm, rigidly coriaceous, base acute or shortly contracted, apex obtuse or rounded, often terminated by a short and broad, obtuse and often recurved point; nerves c. 6-10 pairs, not or hardly visible on the upper surface, very faintly visible or obsolete beneath; petiole firm to slender, ¾-3 cm long, exauriculate; axillary scale adnate to the petiole, usually distinctly broader than this, 1/3-1 cm long, rounded or obtuse. Inflorescences cymose, mostly short and dense, 2-15-flowered; pedicels thick, 0.75-3¼ cm; bracteoles halfway. Calyx narrowly campanulate, 0.75-1.25 cm long, divided slightly less to somewhat more than halfway down. Corolla deep-olive outside, cream-coloured to white inside, tube tubular or narrowly obconical, 1.5-4 cm. Stamens inserted on a thickened ring in the tube, anthers linear-lanceolate, ¾-1.25 cm, slightly bifid at base. Stigma distinctly 2-lobed, 2-3 mm ø. Fruits broadly ellipsoid-subglobose, contracted into a long conical, robust beak, c. 4 by 2.25 cm, orange; calyx appressed.
Forests and shrubberies on slopes, on limestone hills, etc., 80-2840 m. Fl. Oct.-Febr., May, Aug., fr. Oct.-Febr.
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