Pyramidal shrub or small tree 1–5 m high. Branchlets strongly angular, glabrous, smooth. Leaves narrowly elliptic, 5–7 cm long, 1–1.5 cm wide, serrulate, acute, chartaceous, smooth, glossy, glabrous. Flowers 10–30 in a compact rounded terminal corymb; pedicels c. 5 mm long. Calyx lobes broadly deltate, c. 0.8 mm high, thick, glabrous. Petals spreading, narrowly ovate, c. 5 mm long, cream to pale yellow, glabrous. Stamens ±equal to petals. Gynophore shortly cylindrical, c. 0.5 mm high. Carpels 5; ovary barrel-shaped, c. 2 mm high, minutely rugulose, glabrous. Cocci erect, not corrugate, c. 5 mm high; apex outwardly shortly rostrate.
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