A small tree; branchlets a warm reddish-brown, glabrous. Leaves broadly or obovately elliptic, narrowly acuminate, base shallowly cordate, margin crenate-serrate, 2–4 1/2 in. long, 1 1/4–2 3/4 in. wide, membranous, glabrous or sometimes shortly hairy on the nerves on the lower face; 3-nerved, nerves subparallel connected by thin transverse veins, the lateral emitting a series of spreading-ascendent branch nerves; petiole slender, about 1/2 in. long. Male inflorescence unknown. Female inflorescences solitary or two or three together on arrested shoots, globose; peduncle slender, grey-pubescent, 4–8 lin. long. Sepals orbicular with ciliolate margin, barely 2 lin. long; stigmas sessile, subulate, densely papillose, up to about 2 1/2 lin. long. Syncarp about 1/2 in. in diam., scarcely succulent; fruit projecting shortly from the perianth, broader than long, to about 2 1/2 lin. broad.