The species occurs as small
trees up to 12 m tall. The
bark and trunk appear whitish. The trees have a characteristic horizontal
branches, with cylindrical branchlets. Branchlets and leaves lack hairs. The
leaves are simple, alternate, and
distichous, with short petioles about 0.2 - 0.6 cm long. The leaf blade is
sub-coriaceous, about 4-9 cm long by 1.5 to 3.5 cm wide, dark green, drying pale greenish to brown. The shape of the leaves is elliptic with a slight asymmetric base and an acuminate apex. The margin is entire. The leaves have a midrib that is flat above. Leaves have 6-9 pairs of secondary nerves. The
flowers are
unisexual, with male flowers in axillary clusters from pedicels about 3-5 mm long, puberulous and 4 to 5 tepals about 3 x 2-2.5 mm in size, 6-10 stamens that are about 1-1.5 mm long. The stamen filaments are free, with oblong anthers. The female flowers are also axillary, but solitary, with pedicels 4-5 mm long, puberulous and 4-5 tepals about 3-4 × 2.5-3.5 mm in size; disc annular and reniform stigma. The
ovary is about 2 x 1 mm, ellipsoid and with a single locule with two ovules, sparsely puberulous to glabrous. The
fruit is a
drupe, ovoid to ellipsoid in shape, about 1.7-2 cm long by 1.5 cm wide, smooth and hair-less, with a pedicel about 10-12 mm long and holding a single
seed. == Range ==