A medium size to large tree, up to 25-30 cm tall with many spreading branches with pale greenish, gray and smooth bark. Leaves alternate to subopposite, 10-15 (-25) x 3.75-7.5 (-8.5) cm, elliptic,-oblong or oblong, acute to obtuse, penninerved, covered with silky hairs when young, becoming glabrescent; rounded or cordate at base, usually unequal; petiole 1.25-3.5 cm long, pubescent, usually with 2, rarely more glands on the upper side at the apex. Spikes terminal, rarely panicled, 5-15 (-20) cm long with hispid floral axis. Flowers all bisexual, 5 mm across, yellowish; bracteoles linear, acute, pubescent, 5-6 mm long, caducous. Calyx tube 3-3.5 mm long, glabrous outside, hairy within, calyx teeth very short, broadly triangular. Drupe ellipsoid or obovoid, obscurely 5-ribbed, 2-3.75 cm long.