BotanyTrees: up to 18 m tall.
Stem: bark brownish, scaly and flaky; blaze light orange; branchlets stout, lenticellate, glabrous.
Leaves: simple, alternate, spiral, clustered at twig ends; petiole stout 0.7-2 cm long, planoconvex in cross section; ± 10 cm long, x ± 6 cm wide; obovate, apex obtuse or rounded, sometimes emarginate, base cuneate to acute, margin entire, coriaceous, glabrous, glaucous beneath, minutely tomentose beneath when young; midrib slightly raised above; secondary nerves 6- to 10 pairs, ascending, branched; tertiary nerves reticulo-percurrent.
Inflorescence: panicle.
Fruit: berry, ellipsoid; 1.4 cm long; seeds 1.