Small shrub or tree, up to 12 m, 30 cm dbh. Axillary buds ovate-oblong, 3.2-7 mm long, acute, flat, but basally strongly thickened, there often with exuberant cork-forming which may hide the scale completely, greyish to cream-coloured, more or less shiny. Petiole 8-15 mm, often seemingly much longer because of the long-attenuate leaf base. Leaf-blade (5-)7-28 by 2.3-10 cm, base long-attenuate, above dark green, shiny, midrib slightly sunken to slightly prominent basally, further ± prominent, secondary nerves and venation very distinct, sometimes even more distinct than beneath; glaucous-papillose beneath, secondary nerves c. 4-6 pairs, first nerves reaching to halfway or further, intra-marginal nerve in apical part rather distinct; glands very numerous, scattered, 0.1-0.2 mm diam. Inflorescences unbranched, shorter than the leaves; axes minutely rather sparsely appressedly hairy to nearly glabrous; in basal part flowers with up to 3 together. Pedicel 2.5-6 mm, more or less smooth, minutely sparsely to densely, appressedly hairy. Sepals sparsely hairy along the midrib to (nearly) glabrous outside, often some with rather distinct glandular spots; outer sepals 2.7-2.9 by 2.1-2.4 mm; inner sepals 3.1—3.3 by 3—3.2 mm. Petals creamish white to light purplish, the upper ones with a yellow spot, when dry orange, glabrous outside, apically and basally sparsely ciliate, the longest one 11-13 mm. Stamens: filaments connate over up to 2.5 mm; anthers c. 1.2-1.8 mm long, often minutely hairy all over. Ovary 1-2 mm stipitate, glabrous to densely appressedly whitish hairy; style thinly appressedly hairy in basal part, further glabrous; ovules 8-12. Fruit sometimes distinctly stipitate, globular, c. 1.5 cm diam., ± shiny, brownish, glabrous or nearly so; pericarp thin; pedicel up to 10 mm.
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