Shrub or tree, 2–12 m high, sometimes straggling; stem to 25 cm in diameter, branches few, arching, with a distinct pattern of horseshoe-shaped leaf-scars. Leaves narrowly lanceolate, sessile, 12–35 cm long, 1.5–3 cm wide, base hardly constricted and clasping, apex acute. Inflorescence pendulous, paniculate, 20–60 cm long; flowers in groups of 1–3; pedicels 4–12 mm long, articulated above the middle. Flowers white, pale green or with a purple tinge outside, somewhat translucent, 1-ribbed, 15 mm long; tube 1 mm long, lobes 14 mm long, 2–3 mm wide, spreading at anthesis. Fruits orange, globose or lobed when several-seeded, 12–20 mm in diameter; seeds dirty white, 6–9 mm in diameter.
