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Leaves petiolate; lamina 9–24 x 4–9 cm., ± deflexed, oblong to elliptic or oblanceolate, acute (rarely acuminate) to rounded at the apex, cuneate at the base, subentire or sinuate to serrate or shortly spinose, rather coriaceous, glabrous, with prominent venation on both surfaces, eglandular; petiole (10) 20–55 (60) mm. long, channelled above, glabrous; stipules soon caducous.
Stamen-tube with or without a short free 5-lobed margin, glabrous or occasionally pubescent; anthers sessile, inserted opposite the lobes of the stamen-tube, ovate-truncate, glabrous or occasionally pubescent, with a triangular-ovate, acute, not decurrent, connective-appendage, with or without a single, short, lanceolate, thecal appendage.
Petals 4–5 mm. long, 11/2–2 times as long as the sepals, white to greenish-yellow, ovate-lanceolate, acute or obtuse, scarcely recurved above, equal, ± pubescent.
Inflorescence up to c. 20 cm. long, compound, terminal, paniculate, broadly cylindrical to pyramidal; peduncle stout, angular, pubescent.
Capsule 20–25 mm. long, greenish or brown, ± erect, obovoid or ellipsoid, glabrous, rugose, fibrous, woody, several-seeded.
Sepals 2–3 mm. long, ovate to oblong, rounded, obscurely longitudinally ribbed or smooth, ± pubescent.
Ovary globose to ovoid or ellipsoid, glabrous; style c. 3 times as long as the ovary.
Shrub or small tree, 4–9 m. high (? sometimes much taller); bark grey.
Branches spreading, ± terete, somewhat angular when young, glabrous.
Flowers becoming erect, shortly pedicellate; pedicels pubescent.
Flower-buds ovoid or cylindric, pendulous.
Bracts triangular, pubescent, persistent.
Seeds c. 11 mm. long, dark brown.
