Trees evergreen, 8-15 m tall. Young branchlets terete, thinly angular; older branchlets lenticellate. Buds, petioles, young leaves, midvein adaxially and mature leaves puberulent. Petiole 8-12 mm, narrowly sulcate adaxially; leaf blade deep brown when dry, elliptic or oblong, 8-11 × 4-5.5 cm, leathery, midvein raised on both surfaces, lateral veins 6-10 pairs, evident abaxially, obscure adaxially, base cuneate, margin crenate, apex acuminate. Flowers not known. Infructescences: cymes of order 1 or 2, 1-3-fruited; peduncles and fruiting pedicels puberulent. Fruit red, subglobose, ca. 1 cm, 6-8 mm in diam.; persistent stigma thinly discoid, 4-lobed; pyrenes 4 or 5, ellipsoidal, 8-9 mm, ca. 2.5 mm in diam., abaxially smooth, shallowly sulcate, trigonous in cross section, endocarp thickly leathery. Fl. unknown, fr. Sep.
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