Trees up to 30 m, sometimes slightly buttressed, bark smooth or with lenticels in longitudinal lines, brown to grey. Twigs hairy, glabrescent. Leaves elliptic to ovate or obovate, 7-23 by 4-11 cm, base rounded to acute, apex acute to rounded, coriaceous to herbaceous, with 7—12(—15) pairs of nerves, venation more or less transverse, usually conspicuous beneath when dry, densely to sparsely hairy when young, glabrescent, basal glands 2-6, flat. Petiole 0.5-1.5 cm long. Stipules ovate to triangular, sometimes large, 4-7(-15) by 1—3(—10) mm, free. Racemes solitary, in axils of extant or fallen leaves, 2-9 cm long, peduncle absent or very short, rachis hairy, pedicels 0-2 mm long. Flowers often male. Hypanthium (2-)3-4 mm high, hairy outside and also inside. Perianth sub-equal to more or less regular, 6-14, up to 1.5 mm long. Stamens 15-50, filaments up to 4.5 mm, often hairy at base, anthers 0.5-1.2 mm long. Ovary hairy, style up to 5 mm long, hairy, pistil-lode in male flowers minute. Fruits compressed subglobular, 17-33 by 18-34 mm, hairy, black when ripe, mesocarp rather thick when living, endocarp c. 1 mm thick, woody, usually hairy inside. Seed with usually sparsely hairy testa, hairs often especially near apex, sometimes glabrous, rarely densely hairy.
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A tree. It grows 30 m tall. Male and female flowers are on separate plants. The leaves are simple and 7-20 cm long by 3-12 cm wide. There are rusty hairs underneath. The flowers are in the axils of the leaves or along them stems. The flowers are about 1 cm across and have 4-6 petals. They are of various colours. The fruit is fleshy and red to black. It is 2-4 cm long by 2-4 cm wide. There is one brown seed.
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