Shrub or small tree, up to 6 m high and 8 cm Ø. Leaves spaced, spiral, subcoriaceous, very narrowly elliptic, 10½-20 by ½-1½ cm, from the middle gradually narrowed towards both ends, glabrous; papillae distinct, covering the lower surface except the midrib, nerves, and thicker veins; base attenuate; apex acuminate; nerves 22-45 pairs or more, slightly elevated below, faint above; veins reticulate, distinct below, faint above; petiole ½-1½ cm. Panicles terminal, up to c. 10 cm long, young parts slightly pubescent, glabrescent; lateral branches up to 3½ cm, obliquely ascending; bracts lanceolate, ⅔-l mm long; pedicels 0. Flower-bud (only one observed, not dissected) subglobose. Calyx lobes triangular. Petals imbricate, sparsely puberulous outside. Drupe obliquely broad-ovoid, c. 1 by 1 cm, sparsely pubescent, glabrescent; apex obtuse; hypocarp red when fresh (MERRILL, AC), pulvinate, c ½ by ⅔ cm.
In a thicket on a river-bank, 150 m. Fr. April, June.This stenophyllous species belongs apparently to the category of rheophytes, growing along small streams in places subject to sudden and brief overflow when the streams are in spate after heavy rains (cf. MERRILL).
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