Shrub or tree 3-12 m, trunk to ca. 15 cm diam., sometimes fluted. Leaves opposite; petiole to 2 cm long; blade subcoriaceous, elliptical, narrowly lanceolate or narrowly oblanceolate, 6-17(-21) x 3-6.2(-9.5) cm, often smaller, those of a pair often markedly unequal in overall size, nearly subfalcate, acuminate at apex, cuneate at base, glabrous, drying dark brown. Inflorescence axillary or terminal, divaricately branched, few-flowered cyme; branches rufous-puberulent; peduncle to 4 cm long; bracteoles 4, to ca. 1 mm long, puberulent; flowers subsessile or shortly pedicellate. Male perianth urceolate, 4 mm long, not constricted, 5-toothed, pale cream below, with magenta or crimson teeth of ca. 0.2 mm long, glabrate or minutely and sparsely puberulent; stamens 6. Female perianth ca. 6 mm long, prominently constricted at throat into a lower narrow portion of 4 mm long, surrounding ovary, and an upper, globose-campanulate, ca. 2 mm long limb, glabrate or minutely, sparsely puberulent, 5-toothed, teeth ca. 0.3 mm long; staminodes ca. 4; style erect, stigma acuminate. Anthocarp subglobose, 13-17 mm wide, purple.
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A tree. It grows 20 m tall. The leaves are leathery. The flowers are small and in groups at the ends of the branches. The fruit are fleshy and pinkish purple. They are 1 cm across.
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