Shrubs or trees, 2-5 m tall. Trunks with buttresses or small stilt roots. Bark brownish. Stipules lanceolate, 1-2 cm. Petiole 1-3 cm; leaf blade obovate to obovate-oblong, 4-9 × 2-5 cm, base cuneate, apex obtuse to sometimes slightly emarginate.

Inflorescences 4-10-flowered; peduncle 1-2 cm. Pedicel to 2 mm. Calyx 6-7 mm, erect or slightly spreading in flower, widely spreading or reflexed in fruit. Petals oblong, ca. 4 mm, margins fringed with trichomes and slightly cohering, apex with 3 club-shaped terminal appendages. Stamen filaments 3-5 mm, shorter than calyx lobes; anthers less than 1 mm. Hypocotyl 15-30 cm, apex sharply pointed. Fl. autumn-winter, fr. winter.