Tree or shrub to 20 m high; branchlet tips, petioles and inflorescences stellate-hairy. Leaves: lamina oblong to ovate, 4–11 cm long, cordate to truncate at base, usually distinctly oblique, serrulate margin, acute to acuminate at apex, leaf veins pubescent below, somewhat glabrescent; petiole 4–12 mm long; stipules 7–8 mm long, subulate, caducous. Flowers usually 1–3 in an umbel, often with several umbels from 1 leaf-axil; peduncle 7–10 mm long; pedicel 6–10 mm long. Sepals linear, 6–8 mm long, pubescent, yellow. Petals ovate, c. 3 mm long. Androgynophore c. 1 mm long. Fruit purple, often reduced to a subglobose drupe c. 3 mm long, containing 1 or 2 pyrenes.