Trees, 3-20 m tall; branches rather stout, compressed to angled, glabrous, with thin epidermis wrinkled and cracked, coppery brown to reddish purple-brown, deciduous leaving stems wrinkled to smooth. Petiole 1-3 cm, glabrous; leaf blade drying leathery and often paler below, elliptic-oblong, oblanceolate-oblong, or elliptic-lanceolate, 7-30 × 2.9-9 cm, adaxially shiny and glabrous, abaxially puberulent to glabrous, base cuneate to acute, margins often thinly revolute, apex obtuse to acuminate with tip often ultimately obtuse; secondary veins 5-13 pairs, in abaxial axils with foveolate and/or pilosulous domatia; stipules 4-10 mm, glabrous, acute to acuminate. Inflorescences 4-12 × 8-13 cm, densely hirtellous or pilosulous to tomentulose; bracts lanceolate to spatulate, 1-3 mm, acute to rounded; pedicels 1-5 mm. Calyx with ovary portion obconic, ca. 1 mm, densely puberulent to tomentulose; limb 1-2.5 mm, puberulent or tomentulose to glabrescent, with lobes linear to narrowly triangular, 0.5-0.7 mm, acute. Corolla yellow or white, outside glabrous [to sericeous], inside pilosulous in throat with pubescence sometimes extending onto lobes; tube 3-4 × ca. 1.5 mm; lobes spatulate-oblong, 3-4 mm, obtuse to rounded. Fruiting pedicels to 10 mm. Berry ovoid to subglobose, 7-18 mm in diam., glabrous; seeds ca. 5 mm. Fl. Mar-Jun, fr. Jul-Feb.
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A tree. It grows 3-20 m tall. The branches are stout, angled and with wrinkled, cracked bark. The leaves are 7-30 cm long by 3-9 cm wide. They are hairy underneath. The flowering groups are 4-12 cm long by 8-13 cm wide. The flowers are yellow or white. The fruit is an oval berry. It is 7-18 mm across.
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