Tree. Bark hard, grey, scaly. Young branchlets fairly thick, fulvous-tomentose eventually gla-brescent with sympodial growth. Leaves charta-ceous, papyraceous or membranaceous, spirally arranged and somewhat crowded towards the ends of the branchlets, pubescent above, more densely so on the midrib, pubescent to tomentose beneath, obovate, broadly obovate, broadly elliptic or suborbicular, 6-20 by 4½-l2½ cm, rounded at the apex and usually at the base, usually (but sometimes obscurely) minutely verruculose above, manifestly, though not very conspicuously, pellucid-punctate; nerves 7-10 pairs; petiole fulvous-tomentose, 1-3½ cm. Flowers greenish-white, sessile, in axillary spikes 6-11 cm long; rhachis fulvous-tomentellous or pubescent. Bracts pubescent, filiform, 1 mm, early caducous. Lower receptacle (ovary) glabrous or sparsely pubescent, 4-5 mm long, much constricted above the ovary; upper receptacle glabrous, shallow-cupuliform 1½ by 4 mm. Calyx-lobes glabrous, ovate-triangular, 1½ mm long. Filaments glabrous, 3 mm; anthers 0.4 mm long. Disk pilose. Style glabrous, 2 mm. Fruit glabrous, fleshy and red when ripe, compressed-ellpsoid or compressed-ovoid, 1.7-2.2 by 1-1.3 cm; pericarp of dried fruit showing in cross-section an inner sclerenchymatous layer c. 0.7 mm thick, surrounded by a middle layer c. 1-2 mm thick with many small air-spaces, followed by an outer layer of corky consistency.
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A small tree. It grows 5-20 m tall. Plants can be stunted in windy places. Young plant parts can have hairs. The leaves are clustered at the ends of the twigs. The leaf stalks are 1-2 cm long. The leaves are rounded but oval. They are 9-16 cm long by 6-13 cm wide. The tip is rounded. They taper slightly to a rounded base. The flowers are 5-6 mm long. The fruit are flattened and green when young. They become red and fleshy when ripe. They are 2-2.5 cm long by 1-1.5 cm wide. There are 6 fruit is a cluster. The kernels are small and edible.
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