Shrub-like or slender tree, 3-5 m, 2-10 cm ø; bark smooth, brown. Branchlets short-pubescent. Leaves almost distichous, oblong to obovate-oblong, apex shortly and ± bluntly acuminate, base broadly attenuate to almost rounded, firmly chartaceous to subcoriaceous, dark brown above, much paler beneath when dry, initially sparsely hairy along lower part of the midrib, with age practically glabrous above, shortly subappressedly pubescent all over the undersurface especially on midrib and nerves (though less obviously than in G. cumingiana), 8-14 by 2.5-4(-5.5) cm, nerves 5-6 ascendently curved and obscurely inarching pairs, slightly raised beneath, net of veins coarse, faintly prominent beneath; petiole puberulent, 0.8-1 cm by 1 mm. Inflorescences from foliate and defoliate axils, both ♂ and ♀ ones composed of 2(-3) few-flowered cymes on common peduncle (c. 5 mm), short-brownish-pubescent, the petals excepted. ♂ Flowers: Calyx cup-shaped, 4(-5)-denticulate, 1 mm. Petals 4 or 5, united for the lower ⅔ to a subcampanulate tube, white or cream, 3-4 mm. Stamens 4 or 5, exserted for 1.5-2 mm; filaments with rather few papillose hairs in front below the anther cells and at connective. Rudiment of ovary glabrous. ♀ Inflorescences 2-3-flowered. Calyx and petals as in ♂ flowers. Staminodes 4 or 5, papillose. Ovary glabrous. Drupe oblongoid-fusiform, apex slightly oblique and a little beaked, base gradually attenuate, pale yellow when fresh, 1.3-1.6 by 0.5-0.6 cm; endocarp thin, with several slightly outstanding longitudinal ribs.
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