Trees to 10 m tall. Current year branchlets 2-ribbed, pubescent when young, soon glabrescent; terminal buds sparsely pubescent when young, soon glabrescent. Petiole 3-5 mm, glabrous; leaf blade lanceolate to oblong-lanceolate, 7-10 × 1.3-2.5 cm, leathery, abaxially pale green, adaxially dark green and shiny, both surfaces glabrous, secondary and reticulate veins raised on both surfaces, base cuneate, margin basally entire and apically undulate-serrate, apex acuminate. Flowers not seen. Fruit purplish black when mature, globose to ovoid, 4-5 mm in diam.; pedicel 3-4 mm, glabrous; persistent bracteoles 2, sepaloid; persistent sepals suborbicular, 1.5-2 mm, outside glabrous, margin glandular; style ca. 2 mm, apically 3-lobed. Fr. Oct-Nov.

● Forests; 700-800 m. Guangxi (Nanning, Shiwan Dashan).