Evergreen trees, ca. 8 m tall, glabrous. Leaves alternate; petiole 0.8-1.4 cm; leaf blade long elliptic or long ovate, 9-16.5 × 3-6.5 cm, glaucous abaxially, pinninerved, lateral veins 6-9 pairs, conspicuously reticulate-veined on both surfaces, base broadly cuneate or rounded, apex acuminate. Umbels axillary, 2-or 3-flowered; peduncle slender, 1-1.5 cm. Male flowers: pedicel ca. 2 mm; perianth segments 6, subequal, long ovate; stamens 12, of 1st and 2nd whorls each with 2 stipitate glands, of 3rd and 4th whorls each with 1 stipitate gland; anthers 4-celled, all introrse; rudimentary pistil ca. 3 mm. Female flowers: ovary long ellipsoid; stigma 3-lobed. Young fruit long ellipsoid, ca. 9 × 5 mm; perianth tube ca. 5 mm in diam.; fruiting pedicel ca. 1.5 cm.
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