Shrub, or tree to 30 m high. Leaves subsessile or with petiole to 2 cm long; lamina elliptic to obovate, or narrowly so, 4–15 cm long, 1.5–6 cm wide, attenuate at base, entire, rounded or obtuse to acuminate at apex. Inflorescences 3–6 cm long; pedicels 1.5–3 mm long. Sepals 0.5–1 mm long. Petals c. 4.5 mm long, greenish white or white to yellowish, appressed-pubescent abaxially, glabrous adaxially. Staminal filaments frequently glandular-papillose towards apex; anthers glabrous or those of antipetalous stamens with 1 or a few apical trichomes. Fruit globose to ellipsoid or ovoid, 8–12 mm long. Seeds narrowly ovoid to ellipsoid, 3.5–5 mm long.