Small understorey tree; branchlets wrinkled, glabrous. Leaf-blades elliptic, oblong-elliptic or obovate-elliptic, 7.5–14 cm. long, 3.75–7 cm. wide, very shortly ± bluntly acuminate or subacute at the apex, cuneate at the base, glabrous, said to be thick and lustrous; petiole 1–2.7 cm. long; stipules large, broadly elliptic or almost round, 2.5–3 cm. long, 2 cm. wide, ± acute, entire, soon falling, with a line of hairs at the nodes within the stipules. Flowers in branched inflorescences, each component ± capitate; peduncles 2–7 cm. long, glabrous; secondary peduncles 1.2–2.5 cm. long; pedicels obsolete; bracts forming a small lobed ciliate involucre at the junction of the secondary peduncles, 1.3 cm. wide; secondary bracts small, ciliate. Calyx-tube obconic to semiglobose, 0.7–1.2 mm. long; free part of limb 1 mm. long; lobes rounded, 0.8–1 mm. long, ciliate; disc prominent. Corolla white; tube 2.5 mm. long; lobes ovate-lanceolate, 2 mm. long, 1 mm. wide, thickened and ± appendiculate at the apex. Anthers exserted 0.8 mm. in long-styled flowers. Style 2.5 mm. long in long-styled flowers; stigma-lobes flattened and lobulate, 0.5 mm. long. Fruits red, 7–8 mm. in diameter, crowned by the persistent calyx-lobes; pyrenes almost round in outline, 4 mm. in diameter, 1.5 mm. thick, slightly concave ventrally, strongly 4-ribbed dorsally.