Small tree, glabrous except the slightly puberulent tips of branchlets, the young petioles and the inflorescences. Leaves almost distichous, ovate to ovate-elliptic, or elliptic, apex ± abruptly narrowed to a subcaudate bluntish acumen (1-2 cm), base broadly cuneate, the very base often contracted and a little decurrent on the petiole, membranous to subchartaceous, dark olive-brownish when dry, 6-10 by 2.5-5 cm, nerves 5-6 moderately curved-ascendent pairs, minutely raised beneath, veins ± obscure; petiole 5-10 by hardly 1 mm. Both ♂ and ♀ inflorescences very lax, slender as are the peduncles (2-3 cm) and the branches. ♂ Flowers (ELMER 12508) in a 3-5-flowered very lax cyme; pedicels in fully developed inflorescences 2-3 mm. Calyx cup-shaped, base truncate, laxly ciliate, hardly 4-dented, 1 mm. Petals 4, glabrous, coherent in the lower ¾, glabrous, 3 mm. Stamens 4; filaments glabrous on the ventral, and with a few penicillate hairs on the dorsal side at the connective. Rudiment of ovary glabrous or maybe with a few hairs along edges. ♀ Flowers in 2 or 3 very lax cymes, each cyme reduced to one flower; branches (simulating pedicels) 1-2 cm. Calyx and petals as in ♂ flowers. Staminodes 4; filaments laxly long-hairy on ventral side immediately below the anther cells and at connective. Ovary sparsely hairy in upper part, practically glabrous. Submature drupe ovoid-oblongoid, apex very shortly sub-abruptly attenuate and maybe very sparsely hairy, base rounded, seen up to 1.3 by 0.7 cm; endocarp thin, with numerous low longitudinal ridges.
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