Shrubs, or small trees, to 10(-20) m, essentially glabrous. Leaves weakly obovate to elliptic, acuminate, obtuse basally, to 19 cm long and 8 cm wide, glabrous, chartaceous to ? membranaceous; petioles ca. 1-3 cm long, weakly perfoliate, mostly glandular in the axils. Inflorescences corymbose, pendant or lax, somewhat irregular, many-flowered, mostly axillary, the peduncle 3-13 cm long, the bracts apparently absent. Flowers with the pedicels ca. 7-15 mm long; 3The Panamanian collection was in flower only.