Shrubs; branches glabrous. Leaves generally isophyllous; petiole 1-1.5 cm, glabrous; blade drying papery, narrowly elliptic-oblong or narrowly lanceolate, 8-14 × 2-3.5 cm, glabrous on both surfaces, rather shiny adaxially, base cuneate, apex caudate-acuminate; secondary veins 10-12 pairs; stipules persistent, suborbicular to broadly elliptic, 7-10 mm, parallel-veined, glabrous, rounded. Inflorescences and flowers not seen. Infructescences terminal, cymose, with ca. 5 fruit. Fruit obovoid to subglobose, ca. 6 mm, with persistent calyx lobes lanceolate, 5-6 mm. Fr. Jan.