Stems to 5 cm diam. Leaves: petiole 1.5–3 cm long, usually partly rugulose, puberulous to subglabrous; lamina lanceolate to ovate-lanceolate, 5–11.5 cm long, 2–6.5 cm wide, slightly puberulous on lower surface when young, glabrescent. Inflorescences 2.5–14 cm long, adpressed-puberulous; cymes (sometimes 1-flowered) on branches 3–10 mm long, the flowers sessile. Male flowers: sepals c. 12, yellow, glabrous, lateral margins minutely ciliolate, the innermost sepals broadly elliptic and 3–3.5 mm long; petals 2–2.5 mm long, glabrous; stamens 2–3 mm long. Female flowers: carpels narrowly ovoid, 1.5 mm long, borne on a very shortly-lobed columnar gynophore 1–2 mm long; style short, acute. Drupes 10 mm long, colour not known, glabrous.