Tree, 25 m. Older nodes usually with a cluster of adventitious buds. Petiole 5-7 mm, not transversally wrinkled, more or less smooth. Leaf-blade 8-15 by 3-6 cm; above green, midrib sunken; beneath con-colorous, secondary nerves 5 or 6 pairs, not forming an intramarginal nerve; glands present only in apical half of the leaf-blade, c. 0.2 mm diam., scattered but up to 6 present on the leaf margin itself, other glands c. 8-12. Inflorescences up to 4 cm long; nodal glands rather distinct. Pedicel 5-7 mm, rather sparsely minutely woolly hairy. Sepals sparsely minutely hairy inside; outer sepals 4 by 2.5 mm; inner sepals 4.9 by 2.4 mm. Petals brownish orange when dry, the longest one 7.5 mm long; carina inside in middle part shortly appressedly sparsely hairy; other petals inside densely appressedly shortly hairy. Stamens triadel-phous; filaments densely rather shortly hairy; anthers 0.6 mm long, sparsely hairy at base, ciliolate along slits. Ovary shortly stipitate, slightly pustulate; style rather densely shortly more or less patently (± woolly) hairy; ovules 13. Fruit globular, c. 1.5 cm diam., smooth, dark reddish; pericarp thin; pedicel 7-9.5 mm.
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