Trees, up to 14 m tall. Branchlets slender, terete, glabrous. Petiole 5-10 mm, glabrous; leaf blade abaxially gray-white, elliptic-oblanceolate, 7-11 × 2-3.5 cm, leathery, glabrous on both surfaces, midrib elevated abaxially, somewhat impressed or flat adaxially, lateral veins 10-13 pairs, thin, slightly visible on both surfaces, base attenuate, slightly decurrent, margin revolute. Infructescences usually terminal, ca. 4.5 cm, sparsely pubescent, conspicuously lenticellate. Fruit globose, 6-7 mm in diam.; persistent perianth lobes oblong, ca. 5 × 2.5 mm, pubescent on both surfaces. Fr. Dec.