Shrub 4–5 m tall (scandent fide Bidgood et al.); bark brown, shining, longitudinally striate, splitting. Leaves shining in life, less so and brownish on drying, oblong, elongate-oblong or elliptic-oblong, 10–30 cm long, 3–8 cm wide, rounded at apex and base, margin crenulate, entire or with few very obscure traces of serration; midrib ± impressed above, very prominent beneath; lateral veins ± 35 with venation very densely reticulate and with some close parallel veinlets, prominent on both sides; petiole thick, 3–5 mm long; stipules triangular, 5 mm long, striate, thickened. Panicles terminal with very abbreviated branches bearing numerous persistent bracteoles, with only terminal flowers well developed; rhachis 6–13 cm long; pedicels 1.2–1.5 cm long. Sepals thin, ovate-oblong, 6–7 mm long, 3 mm wide. Petals yellow, oblong-spathulate, 9–10 mm long, 5 mm wide. Stamens 10; anthers ± 7 mm long, almost sessile. Drupelets black, subglobose, ± 6 mm in diameter (immature).