Shrub or tree to 10 m high. Branchlets terete, somewhat verrucose, silvery-lepidote. Leaves shortly petiolate, narrowly elliptic, 30–80 mm long, 5–15 mm wide, acute, chartaceous, smooth and glabrous adaxially except along impressed midrib, smooth and silvery-lepidote abaxially. Flowers 2–8, in lepidote cymes up to ½ length of leaf; pedicels 2–7 mm long; bracteoles small, subopposite, caducous. Sepals deltate, c. 1 mm long, lepidote abaxially. Petals elliptic, c. 4 mm long, white, lepidote abaxially. Staminal filaments linear, acuminate, sparsely stellate-hairy near base. Ovary subglobular, silvery-lepidote. Cocci obliquely ovoid, c. 4 mm long, obtuse.
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