Small tree to 20 m, often multi-stemmed, evergreen, dbh to 30 cm, dioecious; buttresses and thorns absent; bark grey, somewhat rough with numerous vertical fissures and lenticels; twigs with pale lenticels; stipules persistent, triangular, c. 0.5 mm long and wide, glabrous. Leaves simple, alternate, distichous; petioles 6–9 mm long, channeled, glabrous; blades discolourous, ovate or ovate-elliptic, 72–140 mm long × 33–58 mm wide, glabrous; base cuneate; apex acuminate; margin toothed, with each tooth gland-tipped; basal pair of glands c. 0.25 mm diameter, the remaining glands smaller; venation camptodromous proximally and brochidodromous distally, the primary vein flush in dried specimens, the lateral veins in 6–8 pairs diverging from primary vein at 50–60º, the tertiary venation reticulate. Male inflorescence an axillary raceme or a cluster of racemes, each raceme to 16-flowered; bracts mostly persistent at peduncle base, broadly ovate to almost orbicular, 1–1.7 mm long × 0.8–1.3 mm wide, puberulent; peduncle c. 1.5 mm long, minutely puberulent, green or red; articulation swollen; bracteoles at pedicel articulation caducous, ovate or oblong, 1.5–1.75 mm long × c.1.25 mm wide, ciliate; pedicel 3–5.5 mm long, minutely puberulent; sepals 5 or 6, imbricate-quincuncial, broadly ovate, c. 3 mm long × 2 mm wide, sparsely puberulent abaxially and puberulent adaxially, green, often with reddish bases; disk 15–18-lobed, orange; stamens c. 40, filaments c. 4 mm long; anthers basifixed, subglobose, c. 0.6 mm long × 0.9 mm wide, glabrous; rudimentary ovary sometimes present, urn-shaped, c. 0.5 mm long. Female inflorescence an axillary raceme or a cluster of racemes, each raceme to 10-flowered; bracts mostly persistent and clustered at peduncle base, imbricate, broadly ovate to almost orbicular, 1–1.5 mm long × 0.8–1.3 mm wide, green or red, puberulent abaxially and glabrous adaxially; apex acute, rounded or truncate; margin ciliate; peduncles 1–2.5 mm long, articulate, puberulent; bracteoles at pedicel articulation caducous, ovate or oblong, 1.5–1.75 mm long × c. 1.25 mm wide, ciliate, puberulent both abaxially and adaxially; pedicel articulated, puberulent, 3–5 mm long, green or red; sepals imbricate-quincuncial, suborbicular or broadly ovate, concave and remaining cupped at anthesis, c. 2.5 mm long × 2 mm wide, abaxially mostly glabrous and puberulent towards apex, adaxially pubescent, green with red bases, apex obtuse or acute, margin ciliate; petals absent; disk fleshy, 12–14-lobed, bright orange, forming a ring protruding beyond the ovary diameter; ovary superior, sessile, ovoid, 1-locular, c. 2.25 mm long × 2 mm wide, green; style c. 0.5 mm long, 3–5-branched; stigmas 3–5, lobed; placentas 4; ovules c. 40. Fruit peduncle 3–6 mm long. Fruit a globose berry, c. 9 mm long × 9.5 mm wide, bright red to blackish, with sepals persistent at base and stigmas persistent at apex; seeds c. 40; testa brown.