Trees to 5–9 m tall. Branchlets purplish brown when old, terete, densely pilose when young, gradually glabrescent, subglabrous when old. Petiole ca. 1 cm, pilose; stipules caducous, lanceolate, membranous; leaf blade oblanceolate or obovate-lanceolate, 6–8 × 2–3.5 cm, veins 10–12 pairs, abaxially pilose along veins, adaxially initially pilose, glabrescent, base cuneate, margin irregularly obtusely dentate, apex acute. Compound corymbs terminal, 6–9 × 8–12 cm, many flowered; rachis and pedicels densely pilose; bracts 4–6 mm, pubescent. Pedicel 5–10 mm. Flowers ca. 1 cm in diam. Hypanthium campanulate, abaxially pilose. Sepals triangular-lanceolate, 2.5–4 × 2.5–3 mm, margin entire, apex acute. Petals oblong or elliptic, 4–6 × 3–5 mm, base shortly clawed and barbate, apex emarginate. Stamens 20; filaments unequal in length, slightly shorter than sepals. Ovary semi-inferior, (4-or)5-loculed; styles (4 or)5, connate for ca. 1/2 length, base densely pubescent. Fruit orangish red, compressed-globose, ca. 8 mm in diam., pubescent when young, glabrate; sepals incurved; seeds 1 or 2 per locule.
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A tree. It grows to 15 m high. The leaves have short stalks. They are oval or fattened near the base. They are leathery with teeth along the edge. They are woolly underneath. The flowers are white. They have a scent. They occur in flat topped clusters. The fruit is round and orange-yellow.
A tropical plant. In Nepal it grows between 1000-2500 m altitude. In China it grows in mixed forests between 500-2,800 m above sea level. In Vietnam it grows between 1,000-2,000 m above sea level. In Yunnan.
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