Tree, 15-20 m, trunk up to 45 cm ø. Branchlets puberulent distally. Leaves oblong, apex short-acuminate, tip often bluntish, base broadly attenuate to roundish, subcoriaceous, rather dark brown when dry especially above, initially sparsely set with short ± appressed pale hairs at midrib and nerves beneath, glabrous with age, 6-13 by 2.5-4.5 cm, nerves 5-7 pairs, rather straight, obscurely inarched before the edge, slightly raised beneath, net of veins coarse and rather obscure; petiole c. 1 cm by 1-1.5 mm. ♂ Inflorescences 2(-3) cm long, consisting of 2 or 3 shortly branched cymes on top of common peduncle (0.5-1 cm), subdensely 5-12-flowered, short-hairy except calyx and petals. Calyx ± obconical, entire or almost so, 1.5(-2) mm. Petals 5, connate for the lower ⅔ to a narrowly campanulate tube, white or yellowish green, 3.5-4 mm. Stamens 5, a little or hardly exserted; filaments with short-clavate or papillose hairs both in front below the anther cells and on connective. Rudiment of ovary glabrous. ♀ Inflorescences and drupe unknown.
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