Shrubs or small trees; branches glabrous [to densely puberulent in Philippine plants]. Leaves opposite, sessile to shortly petiolate; petiole to 0.4 cm, glabrous [to densely puberulent in Philippine plants]; blade drying thinly papery and dark brown, elliptic, elliptic-oblong, or elliptic-ovate, 4.5-10 × 2-7 cm, glabrous [or puberulent along midrib abaxially in Philippine plants], base truncate, rounded, or cordulate, apex obtuse to rounded and usually apiculate; secondary veins 8-11 pairs; stipules deciduous, very shortly united around stem, lanceolate to broadly triangular, 2-5 mm, glabrous, acuminate. Inflorescences terminal, congested-cymose, 1-2 cm wide (not including corollas), few flowered, puberulent to glabrous; peduncle 1-1.5 cm, usually subtended by a pair of reduced, ovate or subovate, cordate leaves 0.5-3 cm; bracts ovate-lanceolate to narrowly triangular, 1.5-2 mm, acuminate. Flowers subsessile to sessile. Calyx puberulent to glabrescent; hypanthium ellipsoid, ca. 1 mm; limb 0.5-1 mm, shallowly lobed; lobes dentiform. Corolla white to pink, outside puberulent; tube 18-20 mm; lobes elliptic-oblong, ca. 7 × 3.5 mm, obtuse. Drupe ovoid, didymous, weakly compressed, ca. 1 cm, red when dry. Fl. Jun-Aug.
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A small shrubby tree 1 to 2 m high. The twigs are nearly round and smooth. The leaves are leathery and nearly lacking a stalk. They are oblong and papery beneath. The base is rounded and often heart shaped, and the midrib raised beneath. They are leaf like appendages at the base of the leaf stem. The flowers are pink to white. The fruit are oval and reddish. They are between 2 seeds ending in a point.
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