Treelet of wet forests, to 4 m with finely hairy, pale yellow, corky twigs; bark often exfoliating conspicuously. Leaves simple, opposite, with interpetiolar stipules with collar and awn; blade 6 – 16 cm long, oblanceolate, with finely mucronate at the tip; ± 4 pairs of ascending laterals; pit domatia in axils of laterals.