Small tree to 7 m, monoecious; buttresses absent; bark grey-brown with numerous lenticels mostly in vertical lines with older stems becoming tessellated; twigs zig-zagged, glabrous; stipules caducous, broadly triangular, c. 0.5 mm long and wide, margins ciliate. Leaves opposite, simple; petioles shallowly grooved in dried specimens, 3.5–8 mm long, glabrous; lamina broadly elliptical, 53–145 mm long and 13–72 mm wide, discolourous, membraneous, glabrous, minutely tubercled abaxially, numerous oil dots visible with a lens; base obtuse, rounded, subcordate, cuneate, attenuate or decurrent; apex narrowly obtuse or acute, entire (although very young leaves have minutely ciliate margins); venation brochidodromous; primary vein sunken on adaxial surface; secondary veins 4 or 5 pairs, angle of divergence from primary vein 60–80º, forming loops 2–4 mm from margin, flush with adaxial surface, raised abaxially; tertiary veins reticulate; numerous small oil dots visible with a lens. Inflorescence an axillary glomerule or fascicle, 3–7-flowered; bracts several, clustered at peduncle bases and persistent well after inflorescences have dehisced, broadly ovate. Flowers not fragrant, urceolate, c. 5 mm long and 2.5–3.5 mm diam.; peduncle indistinct, up to 0.3 mm long; calyx cupular or cone-shaped, c. 3 mm long and diameter 1.5–2 mm, scurfy abaxially and glabrous adaxially, apex subtruncate or 6- or 7-lobed, scurfy towards apex, green; petals 5–7, triangular, connate at base and inserted on cupular disk, 2–3 mm long, fleshy, abaxially papillate, adaxially clothed in minute hairs which intermingle with much longer hairs in the centre towards base of free section, cream or yellow, apex acute; disk accrescent, cupular, c. 0.7 mm high, glabrous, soon expanding around ripening ovary; stamens 5–7; filaments strap-shaped, connate or free, 1–2 mm long, upper section papillate; anthers 2-loculed, globose, 0.8–1 mm long, adaxially tufted with hairs; ovary sessile, connate with disk, c. 1.7 x 1.7 mm (including style), hemispherical with the style beak-like to c. 0.7 mm long; ovules two; stigma sessile. Fruiting peduncle c. 2 mm long. Fruit a drupe, enclosed within an expanded disk that completely encloses the ovary, obovoid, 32–46 mm long and diameter 30–36 mm, bright red; epicarp shiny and glabrous except for furfuraceous apex; disk rim at apex narrowly recessed by 3–4 mm, disk rim diameter c. 1.5 mm; style persistent at base of recess, c. 0.5 mm long; mesocarp 7– 8 mm thick, palest pink or cream coloured; seed solitary, endocarp ellipsoid or obovoid, 20–22 mm long and 17–19 mm wide, woody and sculptured with irregular longitudinal ribs.