A glabrous tree up to 24 m tall, generally dioecious; branches lax, horizontal.Wood white, close-grained.Bark grey-brown, smooth or minutely fissured.Twigs greenish.Stipules 2 × 1 mm, triangular, acute.Petioles 3–10 mm long.Leaf blades 3–14 × 1–7 cm, elliptic to elliptic-ovate, obtuse or obtusely acuminate at the apex, asymmetrically cuneate at the base and decurrent onto the petiole, entire or shallowly crenate-serrate, coriaceous, glossy, dark green above, paler beneath, the pustules paler still, drying a dull grey-green; lateral nerves in 7–11(15) pairs, weakly or not looped; tertiary and quaternary nerves reticulate with raised pustules covering each reticulation.Male flowers: pedicels 1–2 mm long; sepals 5–7, 2.5–3 × 2.5–3 mm, suborbicular-ovate, not ciliate, eglandular, the outer slightly hooded and greenish, the inner flat and ± cream coloured; glands confluent; stamens (16)20–30, usually with an outer whorl of 15–20 and an inner of 5–15, filaments 3–4 mm long, white, anthers 1 mm long, yellow.Female flowers: pedicels 2–3 mm long, extending to 5–6 mm in fruit, stouter than in the male flowers; sepals 6–8, ± as in the male flowers; disk crenate; staminodes usually subulate; ovary 2 mm in diameter, usually 3-celled, 3-lobed to subglobose, smooth; styles usually 3, 1–2 mm long, bifid, stigmas oblong, slightly lobulate.Fruit 1 × 1.5 cm, usually 3-celled, obovoid-trigonous, ± smooth, dark green later turning brown.Seeds 6 × 5 mm, ± ovoid, smooth; exotesta pearly-grey on drying, endotesta dark grey-brown.
