Small to medium tree, height up to 20 m., with fluted trunk and grey bark. Young shoots, buds and young petioles with ferrugineous pubescence; older branches and petioles becoming glabrous. Petioles 4–10 mm. long. Leaf-lamina oblong to oblong-elliptic, 4–9.5 cm. long, 1.5–4.5 cm. wide, thinly coriaceous, apex tapered and acute to acuminate, base broadly cuneate and usually unequal; upper and lower surfaces glabrous, except on midrib beneath; lateral nerves very numerous and closely parallel, ± straight and slightly arcuate, scarcely ascending. Flowers very small and greenish, clustered in axils of current leaves or at old nodes; pedicels slender, 1.5–3.5 mm. long, puberulous. Sepals ± free to base, suborbicular, ± 2 mm. long, externally puberulous. Corolla-tube ± 1.5 mm. long; lobes rounded, ± 1 mm. long, ciliate. Free part of filaments ±1.5 mm. long, flattened; staminodes absent. Ovary subconical, densely pilose, tapering to a short thick style, ±1.5 mm. long. Fruit shortly stalked, yellow when ripe, subglobose, up to 3.5 cm. in diameter, glabrous. Seeds shiny brown, ± ellipsoid, but straight along one margin, laterally compressed, up to 1.8 cm. long; curved margin acute and ± keeled; scar lateral on straight margin, narrowly oblanceolate.
