Large shrub or small tree, slender branches; young shoots sparingly stellate, hairy; bark grey, rough; leaves distichous, narrowly ovate or lanceolate, acuminate, tapering towards apex, pilose on nerves beneath, margin serrate, 3-nerved at base; secondary nerves arched; petioles short, pilose; stipules linear-subulate, as long as the petiole; flowers solitary or 2-3 together, peduncles axillary, pilose, half the length of leaves; pedicels dilated upwards; bracts white, linear-subulate; sepals-5, linear-oblong, densely covered with stellate-tomentum outside, 3 nerved; petals-5, glandular at base, oblong-lanceolate, entire, white, half as the length of sepals; stamens numerous on a raised, short torus, opposite the petals, pubescent in upper half; ovary 2-celled, ovules 2-many, style hairy, longer than stamens; drupe fleshy, didymous, smooth, 1-4 lobed, about the size of a small pea, purple-black when ripe, 2-celled, 1-2 seeded; seeds small, albuminous.