Evergreen, much-branched tree with columnar or conical crown, 8–25 m tall; bark greyish-white or greyish-brown, reticulate and rough or smooth; ultimate branches terete, 2–2.5 mm wide, greyish brown, subscabrid with blackish hairs or glabrous; bud-scales caducous. Leaf-blade narrowly elliptic or oblanceolate, 3–16(–18) cm long, 1–6(–7) cm wide, apex long-acute, but sometimes shortly and bluntly acuminate, base acute to cuneate, 7–10 pairs of main veins, leathery, glabrous, dark green, drying brownish green; petiole terete, 0.3–4(–5.6) cm long, 0.1–0.15 mm wide, densely covered with short reddish or blackish subscabrid stellate hairs, at length glabrous; stipules caducous, narrowly triangular, 3–6 mm long, with brown, scurfy hairs. Inflorescences axillary, amongst the leaves, with fascicles of numerous single flowers, but with 1–6 flowers open at a time; bracts 1–3, basal, ± elliptic to triangular 1–1.5 mm long, 1.5–2 mm wide, sometimes inserted on the lower part of the pedicel and narrowly elliptic to deeply bifid, to 5 mm long, puberulous; pedicel 5–12(–15) mm long, 0.6–0.9 mm diameter, articulated 1/3–1/2 the way from the base, with short felty rusty reddish hairs. Flowers yellowish brown or green, perianth divided almost to the base into 5 lobes, each (3.5–)5–7(–10.5) mm long, 2.2–3.5 mm wide, outer surface as pedicel, inner sparsely hairy and densely and minutely papillate. Male flowers with androphore terete (2.5–)3.5 mm long, ± 0.5 mm wide, glabrous or hairy; anthers uniseriate, 4–6, glabrous, in a disc ± 1 mm long, 1.5–2 mm diameter, ovary vestigial, concealed. Female flowers with androphore absent; anthers barely reduced at base of ovary; ovary subglobose (1.2–)2–3 mm long, 2–3.5 mm diameter, densely tomentose; style 1–1.5 mm long; stigmas (3–)4(–5), recurved, 0.5 mm long, with stout hairs. Fruits subglobose to clavate, 12–16(–25) mm long, 15–20 mm diameter, apiculus ± 1 mm long, stipe 1–2 mm long, reddish crimson or brownish orange, with reddish tomentum.
