Trees, to 8 m tall. Branchlets brown when dry, terete. Petiole ca. 1 cm; leaf blade oblong, 12-17 × 4-7(-8.5) cm, leathery, both surfaces glandular, abaxially yellowish brown when dry, adaxially olive green and slightly glossy when dry, secondary veins 10-14 on each side of midvein, 0.8-1.2 cm apart, and at an angle of ca. 50° from midvein, intramarginal veins 2-4 mm from margins with an additional smaller intramarginal vein ca. 0.7 mm from margin, base cuneate, apex acute and with a 7-8 mm obtuse cusp. Inflorescences terminal, paniculate cymes, 3-5 cm, many-flowered in 3-flowered clusters, branched at base. Flower buds obovoid, 8-11 × ca. 6 mm. Hypanthium ca. 6 mm, obconic. Calyx lobes 4, semiorbicular, 1-2 × ca. 2.5 mm, apex rounded. Petals white, distinct, suborbicular, (4-)5(-7) mm. Stamens 4-8 mm. Style 4-7 mm. Fruit globose, ca. 1.6 cm in diam. Fl. Sep.

Mountain valleys at low altitude, moist sandy or dry clay soils, thickets; ca. 1500 m. Guangxi (Shiwan Dashan) [Vietnam].