Trees, ca. 16 m tall; trunk ca. 80 cm d.b.h. Bark opaque brownish, dehiscent. Branchlets slender, hairy. Petiole 1-2.2 cm, pubescent; leaf blade narrowly lanceolate, 6.5-15 × 1.9-3.5 cm, thinly leathery, abaxially yellowish brown pubescent, adaxially glabrous, midrib abaxially elevated, lateral veins 10-15 pairs, together with veinlets adaxially concave, base cuneate, apex acuminate. Panicles subterminal, 5-12 cm, branched at above middle of peduncle, densely pubescent. Pedicel 5-6 mm. Perianth lobes oblong, 4-5 × ca. 1.6 mm, unequal, inner ones longer, densely pubescent on both surfaces. Stamens 3-3.5 mm; filaments sparsely white pubescent; glands of 3rd series stipitate. Ovary glabrous. Infructescences to 14 cm, pubescent. Fruit purple-black, compressed globose, 9-11 mm in diam.