Tree or shrub 1–15(–40) m high; trunk 2–30 cm in diameter; bark grey, slightly fisssured; wood very hard, dense, whitish to yellow. Leaves petiolate; blade coriaceous, elliptic, oblong to obovate, 2–21 mm long, 0.9–6.7 cm wide, apex rounded to acuminate with acumen 4–10(–17) mm long, cuneate to rounded at the base; petiole 6–17 mm long. Inflorescence terminal rarely also axillary, 10–65(–96)-flowered; bracts ovate to triangular, up to 1.3 mm long; peduncle 5–40 mm long; pedicels 3.8–10 mm long. Flowers with sepals resinous within, ovate to triangular, up to 2.5 mm long; corolla white to pale yellow, orange at throat; tube creamy green, 6–10 mm long; lobes pure white, ovate, 3.7–8.8 mm long, 1.8–3.5 mm wide, obtuse at the apex; stamens inserted at 4.5–8 mm from the base; pistil 5.5–9.5 mm long; ovary abruptly narrowing into the style, ovules 2 in each carpel; style 3.5–7.2 mm long. Fruits obovoid to globose, smooth, 13–30 mm long; 10–15 mm wide, apex rounded and sometimes stipitate at the base. Fig. 12 (p. 37).