Small to medium tree (rarely a shrub), height up to 20 m., with much branched dense evergreen crown; bark grey or blackish, rough. Young branches and petioles with ferrugineous pubescence, later wearing away. Petioles 1–3 cm. long. Leaf-lamina thinly coriaceous to coriaceous, ± elliptic, obovate-elliptic to ± oblanceolate, (4-)5–9(–11) cm. long, (l.7-)2.3–4(–4.5) cm. wide, obtuse to ± broadly acute or rarely shortly acuminate, broadly cuneate; upper surface dark green and glossy, with slightly raised nervation, lower surface paler, practically glabrous except on and near midrib; lateral nerves ascending, finely raised. Flowers usually 2–3 per axil; pedicels l.5–2.5(–3.5) cm. long, curved, with dense ferrugineous or brownish pubescence. Outer sepals ± lanceolate, up to 11 mm. long, 4 mm. wide, externally with dense ferrugineous or brownish pubescence. Corolla-lobes cream or whitish, trifid; segments linear-lanceolate, up to 9.5 mm. long; tube up to 2 mm. long. Filaments up to 3 mm. long. Staminodes narrowly lanceolate, up to 5 mm. long, narrowly acute, simple or sometimes minutely laciniate. Ovary up to 2.5 mm. long, densely pilose; style tapering, up to 1 cm. long. Mature fruit an orange or yellowish ± ellipsoid or ovoid-subglobose berry, 1.5–3.5 cm. long and 1.5–2.5 cm. in diameter, with firm tough skin. Seeds 1–2 (very rarely more), variable in shape, generally ± ellipsoid or sometimes ± oblong when more than one seed present, l–2(–2.5) cm. long, up to 1.2 cm. wide and 6 mm. thick; testa shiny pale brown, hard and horny; hilum ± basal in small circular depression.
