Medium-sized tree, glabrous the inflorescences excepted; branchlets greyish. Leaves oblong-elliptic, shortly obtuse-acuminate at the apex, acute at the base, subcoriaceous, shining; nerves prominent, veins distinctly reticulate; petiole c. 5 mm. Panicles 12-20 cm, with few, elongate branches, densely patent-pilose. Flowers fasciculate, 5-6-merous. Pedicels 3-4 mm. Bracts narrow-ovate, minute, caducous. Calyx-tube narrow-funnel-shaped, 2 mm. Sepals oblong, spreading pilose, 2 mm. Petals subspathulate, spreading pilose, 2.5 mm. Ovary villous. Styles 4-5.