Shrub or small tree, 1–2(–5) m. tall; young branches densely yellowish hairy or glabrous. Leaves appearing just before the flowers; blade obovate or obovate-oblong, apex rounded, base rounded or subcordate, chartaceous in the adult stage, glabrous to densely pubescent on both faces, entire or undulate, (1.5–)2–9(–11) cm. long, 0.6–6(–8) cm. broad; lateral nerves 4–8 pairs, looping within the edge, somewhat prominent beneath as is the reticulation; petiole up to 1.5(–3) cm. long. Flowers usually solitary, occasionally in 2–3-flowered cymes in the leaf-axils or terminal on (abbreviated) branchlets; peduncle short; pedicels up to 2 cm. long; basal bracts deltoid, caducous, ± 2 mm. long. Sepals (3 or) 4, oblong-suborbicular, the margin membranous, glabrous to pubescent and with resinous glands outside, 1–2 cm. long, (0.6–)1–1.5(–2) cm. broad. Petals 7–12, narrowly obovate, cuneate to a shortly clawed base, glabrous, up to 4.5 cm. long and 2.4 cm. broad. Stamens numerous; filaments glabrous, up to 1 cm. long; anthers linear, (3–)4–6 mm. long. Ovary ovoid, densely hairy, smooth or longitudinally sulcate; style columnar, pilose below, up to 1 cm. long; stigmas recurved, ± 2 mm. long. Fruit woody, subglobose to ovoid, yellowish hairy to glabrous, smooth or sulcate, ± 3.5–4 cm. long and 1.7–2.5 cm. across, splitting into ± 8 longitudinal segments. Seeds many, ellipsoid, pale brown or buff, smooth or rugose, glabrous, not obviously arillate but embedded in a thin edible pulp.
