Anogeissus latifolia belongs to a species of small to medium-sized trees that grow up to 20 meters tall. The trunk is straight or cylindrical. It can also be poorly shaped sometimes. The bark is smooth or with scales, pale to dark gray. The tree has drooping branches. Leaves are oppositely or nearly- oppositely arranged, simple, entire, with grayish-yellow or whitish hairs below.

Stalkless flowers are borne in dense, spherical heads on stalks in leaf axils or at the end of branches. These flowers are small and have parts in fives. Sepals are joined together in a stalk-like tube, expanded at the top into a 5-lobed cup. There are no petals.
Stamens are 10, in 2 rows. The fruit is a 2-winged pseudoachene, packed into a dense head. Sepal tube survives till fruiting, and forms a beak.