Shrub. Leaves subcoriaceous, glabrous except sparse hairs at the lower parts on both surfaces and the midrib beneath, oblong-or ovate-lanceolate, sometimes obovate-lanceolate, 6.5-12 by 2.5-5 cm; base rather acute or shortly narrowed towards the petiole; apex acute or acuminate; nerves spreading, obsolete, close to each other, among which c. 25-35 stronger pairs, curved and ascending towards the apex. Infructescences pseudo-lateral or terminal, subsessile, 2-3-flowered; pedicels thin, 3-5 mm. Floral tube cylindric, indistinctly ribbed, 13 mm long, 1.5 mm in diam. Calyx lobes ovate, 1½-2 by c. 0.5 mm, the outer lobes acute and the inner ones obtuse, pubescent outside, tomentose inside, and also with a tuft of hairs at the top. Petaloid appendages ± rectangular, c. 3/5 by 1/2 mm, obtuse, connected at the base, villose. Stamens sessile, oblong, 1-1.25 by 1/5 mm. Fruits ± pyriform, c. 1.75 by ⅓ cm (including stipe 3 mm and acute and cuspidate apex 4 mm), short pilose, compressed, irregularly, transversely +-rugose. Seeds 2 or 1 by abortion, c. 9 mm long (including an appendage c. 3 mm long), woolly.
Slope in dense, virgin forest, at the foot of the mountain, 0-200 m altitude.
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