Tree to 30 m, often smaller, mostly glabrous. Branchlets not pendulous. Leaves obovate, oblong-obovate or elliptic, obtuse or rounded, entire, subcoriaceous, slightly recurved; lamina 4.5-12 cm long, 2.5-6 cm wide; base acutely cuneate or shortly decurrent; secondary veins 5-7 pairs; petiole 4-8 mm long; stipules 0.7 mm long. Cymes 1-2 cm long, 1-3-flowered; pedicels puberulent, 8-10 mm long. Sepals ±semicircular, 1.5-3 mm long. Petals nearly circular, 6.5-8 mm long, pale yellow. Stamens 2.8 mm long, 1.5-2 mm wide; staminodes 0.3 mm long. Pistillar body obscurely 5-angled, the flat faces opposite filaments; ovules c. 40. Fruit globose, obovoid or depressed-globose, usually 3-4 cm long, pale yellow-brown.