A small, partly deciduous, upto 5 m tall, glabrous tree or large shrub. Trunk not massive, bark greyish-brown, smooth, young shoots with reddish unfolding leaves. Leaves with 1.5-3.5 cm long, dorsally grooved, reddish petiole. Lamina lanceolate to narrowly. ovate-lanceolate or elliptic-lanceolate, 6.15 (-18) cm long, 2-5.5 (-6.5) cm wide, 3-oostate at the cuneate base, margins entire, gradually narrowed at the apex into c. 2 cm long acumen, glabrous, pale-beneath, lateral nerves 7-15 pairs, somewhat bulging beneath, intercostals present; stipules lanceolate, 8-12 mm long, reddish. Hypanthodia senile to shortly pedunculate, peduncles upto 10 mm long, axillary, solitary or paired, globose, c. 6.8 mm in diam., glabrous, green, subtended by 3, connate, deltoid-orbicular basal bracts, apical orifice dosed by 4-5 triangular bracts. Male Hewers: few to several, in ostiolar rings or dispersed, pedicellate; sepals 3, lanceolate, free, fleshy; stamens 2. Female flowers: senile, sepals as in male, ovary, with a long style. globose, c. 8.10 mm in diameter, reddish, edible.