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Leaves turning black-brown or brown when dry; blades 2.5–13.5 × 1–7 cm, elliptic to broadly elliptic or sometimes oblong-elliptic, acute to obtuse at apex, acute to cuneate or occasionally rounded at base, stiffly papery to subcoriaceous, dull above; lateral nerves in 4–5 main pairs; tertiary nerves obscure; domatia sometimes present as tufts of hair; petiole 2–7 mm long; stipules 4–14 mm long, triangular at their base with a lobe above, caducous.
An evergreen shrub or small tree. It grows 2-10 m tall. The bark is smooth and pale grey. The leaves are simple and opposite. They are broadly oval and 13.5 cm long. They are stiff and somewhat leathery. The flowers are in groups of 30. They are yellow or cream and small. The fruit are yellow and 5-8 mm across. The fruit are edible.
Flowers hermaphrodite (or mostly so), 4-merous, borne in 4–30-flowered umbels; peduncles 2–4 mm long; pedicels 1.5–5 mm long, glabrous; bracts 2–7 mm long, acuminate.
Corolla yellowish-cream; tube 2–3 mm long, densely congested with hairs at throat; lobes 2–2.5 × 1.25 mm, ovate-triangular, shortly apiculate.
Pyrene 5.5–6 × 2–3 mm, obovoid with ventral face flattened, with a shallow crest extending around the apex, slightly rugulose.
Fruit yellow, edible, 5–8 mm in diameter, almost globose or somewhat laterally compressed, scarcely indented at the apex.
Calyx tube ± globose, c. 1 mm in diameter; limb reduced to a rim, or unequally lobed, up to 1 mm long.
Shrub or small tree 2–10 m tall, glabrous; young stems covered with pale grey bark.
Pollen presenter 0.75–1 mm across.
