A shrub with appressed whitish hairs on the developing parts but becoming glabrous. Leaves oblong-lanceolate to lanceolate, 10-30 by 2.5-6.5 cm, acuminate, base broadly cuneate to rounded, chartaceous, margin entire, glabrous, lateral veins widely spaced, prominent on the lower surface, arched; petiole 13-20 mm, glabrous at maturity. Flowers unknown. Infructescences terminal or axillary, peduncle becoming woody, c. 6 cm long with a flattened receptacle c. 20 mm ø at maturity, inner surface pi-lose. Drupes c. 15 mm stipitate, ovoid, c. 25 by 18 mm, verruculose (when dry).