Trees to 17 m tall. Branchlets slender, sometimes striate, gray-yellow or gray-white tomentose, glabrous when old; buds rust-colored or gray-white tomentose. Petiole 2-3.5 cm, pilose or glabrous, swollen at end; leaf blade greenish gray when dry, narrowly oblong, oblong-lanceolate, or lanceolate, 10-14 × 3-3.5 cm, thinly leathery, abaxially pilose or glabrous, black punctate, adaxially glabrous, lateral veins 7-9 per side, prominently raised abaxially, impressed adaxially, veinlets prominent abaxially, conspicuous or sometimes prominently raised adaxially, glands present in axils of lateral veins and veinlets or absent, base cuneate or rounded, margin serrulate, apex long acuminate. Flowers unknown. Drupe ellipsoid, ca. 2 × 1 cm; endocarp shallowly sculptured. Fl. unknown, fr. Sep-Nov.

● Forests, evergreen forests along riverbanks; 1300-2300 m. Yunnan (Gongshan).