Shrub or tree, up to 7.5 m tall, with spreading or rounded crown; bark green to dark grey, fissured into rectangular patches. Leaves olive-green; petiole 3.5–4 mm long; blade elliptic to ovate, obovate or rarely round, 1.5–10 x 7–9 cm, cuneate at the base, obtuse to acute and usually mucronulate at the apex; venation often obscure but sometimes prominent and reticulate. Flowers white or cream, 3.5–5 mm long, in axillary and terminal panicles. Calyx often 2-lipped, c. (2.2–)2.8–3 mm long. Petals (3.5–)4.5–5 mm long. Filaments (1.2–)2–2.5 mm long; anthers 1.6–2 mm long. Ovule solitary. Fruit oblong-ellipsoid to subglobose, (1.8–)1.9–2.6 x 1–1.3 cm. Seed ovoid, flattened, 1.2–2 x 0.75–1.5 cm.