Mollia are large trees, or tall shrubs, growing up to tall. They have 3-veined from the base leaves which have serrated, toothed (dentate) or smooth margins. The
indumentum (surface covering) has stellate hairs and pelate scales. They have rudimentary (or small)
stipules (a small appendage at the bases of leaves), which are
caducous (fall off early). It has inflorescences in few- to many flowered units, sometimes on a common
peduncle (stalk), or solitary flowers. They are showy and white. The sepals are narrow with the petals being truncate and glandless. The
stamens are numerous, in 2 whorls each of 5 phalanges with basally fused filaments (stamen stalks), the outer whorl is antesepalous and longer than the inner. The anthers are
introrse (with opening toward the centre of flower), subasifixed, diamorphic (having two different forms), in outer whorl they are cordate at base and in the inner whorl, they are sagittate (arrow-head shaped). The
ovary is 2 locular, or incompletely so. The
ovules are 2 seriate (arranged in rows) in each locule and numerous. The
style is filiform (needle-like) and the stigma is punctiform (dot-like). The fruit capsule is 2 locular (or bivalved), brown when mature and in diameter. The capsule is also loculicidal (splits along an edge), globose or compressed contrary to the septum and sometimes winged along the line of dehiscence (splitting edge). The loculi, each with two rows of 8–20 flattened seeds and fitting between narrow membranous partitions. The seeds are short winged, various per fruit, plants pubescent. The embryo (inside the seed) is flat, endosperm copious and oily. ==Taxonomy==