Tree or large bush 3–7 m. high with smooth bole and pink slash. Branching–pattern divaricate or verticillate, the proximal part of each twig smooth, with distant leaf scars, the distal part rough with very crowded scars; leaves in “rosettes” at branch ends; leafy part of twigs and petioles with dense reddish indumentum. Stipules soon caducous. Leaf lamina 3·5–11 x 1·3–6 cm., elliptic to obovate–elliptic, the apex rounded or slightly emarginate, the base rounded to cuspidate; petiole 2–7 mm. long. Upper leaf surface glabrous, drying dark greyish–brown, with slightly raised midrib and fine vein reticulation; lower surface ferrugineous crispate–pubescent, glabrescent, with prominent midrib and conspicuous reticulation. Flowers white to pale pink, scented, attractive, borne 1–3 in leaf axils; pedicels 1–2 cm. long; buds and pedicels densely ferrugineous–pubescent. Calyx c. 7·5 mm. long, outer sepals of thicker texture than inner. Corolla c. 7·5 mm. long, connate at base for c. 1·5 mm.; median segments elliptic, slightly shorter than lateral segments, these ovate, tapering at apex. Stamens c. 4 mm. long; filaments subulate; anthers c. 3·5 mm. long. Staminodes equalling stamens in length. Gynoecium c. 8 mm. long. Fruit up to 4·5 cm. long, ovoid–ellipsoid, apiculate, ferrugineous–tomentose when young, glabrescent, 1–2–seeded. Seed up to 3 cm. long.