Shrubby or tree-like, up to 15 m high, dbh up to 30 cm; flowering branches 1.5-2 mm thick; youngest part hairy, glabrescent. Outer bark light brown; inner bark dark brown; wood yellowish. Stipules 0.5-1 by 0.5-0.6 mm. Leaves: petiole 6-9 mm long, pilose to (sub)glabrous, glabrescent; blades elliptic, 4.4-25 by 1.5-8.6 cm, length/width ratio 2.1-4.5, papery to coriaceous, base attenuate to widely cuneate, margin flat, entire with minute crenations in which minute glands, very young, immature leaves laxly serrulate with glands at teeth apices, apex acuminate (to caudate), tip not mucronulate, upper surface glabrous except usually for the hairy basal part of the midrib, usually drying shiny greenish to brownish, lower surface (sub)glabrous to somewhat hairy on venation, drying dull light greenish to brownish, venation not to slightly raised above, raised beneath, nerves 6-8 pairs. Flowers white. Staminate flowers c. 3 mm diam.; pedicel c. 0.5 mm long, pilose; calyx 1.3-1.8 mm high, connate for more than halfway, lobes triangular, c. 0.5 by 1 mm; petals ovate to elliptic, 2.4-3 by c. 1 mm, apex rounded to acute, incurved; stamens 10, outer filaments 1.8-2.3 mm long, inner ones c. 1.5 mm long, anthers c. 0.4 by 0.4 mm, connective without extension; pistillode warty, c. 3 by 1 mm, hairy. Pistillate flowers not seen, according to Merrill (1914): pedicel c. 2 mm long; calyx like in staminate flowers; petals elliptic, c. 4 by 1.6 mm; ovary 2-locular, basally hairy; stigmas c. 2 mm long. Fruits flattened ovoid, 11-18 by 11-16 by 7-10 mm, glabrous, smooth. Seeds not seen.
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