Trees, to 22 m tall. Branchlets gray when dry, slender, rounded; old branches grayish brown. Petiole 7-12 mm; leaf blade elliptic to obovate-elliptic, 4-10 × 1.5-4.5 cm, thinly leathery, abaxially yellowish brown when dry, adaxially olive green or turning grayish brown when dry, both surfaces with small glands, secondary veins numerous, less than 1 mm apart, and gradually extending into margin, intramarginal veins very close to margin, base broadly cuneate to slightly obtuse, apex broadly and abruptly acuminate and with a 1-1.5 cm acumen. Inflorescences terminal or subterminal, paniculate cymes, 1.5-3 cm, few-branched, 3-9-flowered. Flower buds ca. 2.5 mm. Hypanthium ca. 2 mm, apex plano-truncate. Calyx lobes inconspicuous. Petals coherent. Stamens and style very short. Fruit greenish white, red, or black, globose, 6-7 mm in diam. Fl. Jun-Jul, fr. Aug-Dec.
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An evergreen tree. It grows to 20-25 m tall. The trunk can be 40-50 cm across. The bark is grey-white and 0.6 cm thick. It is smooth. The branchlets are round in cross section and greyish brown. The leaves are simple and opposite. They are leathery and oblong. They are 5-7 cm long by 2.5-3.5 cm wide. The tip is narrowed and with a point. The leaves are dark green on the upper surface and paler underneath. There are many visible oil dots. The leaf stalk is 0.7-1.2 cm long. The flowers occur in a cluster either in the angles of leaves or at the end of branches. The flowers contain both sexes. The fruit is a berry. It is round and 0.6-0.7 cm across. There is a crown at the tip. The fruit is edible.
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