Erect to depressed bushy shrub up to ± 1 m. tall; branches stout, spreading, with white bark falling in flakes; branchlets rather stout, glab. Lvs on winged petioles 10-15 mm. long. Stipules broadly triangular to subtruncate, ± glab.; denticles prominent, us. several. Lamina thick, coriac., dark green, ± rugulose above, paler below, subrotund to broad-obovate or obovate-oblong; apex rounded to subtruncate, mucronate; ± 40-70 × 25-40 mm.; margins cartilaginous, crenulate-serrulate. Reticulated veins evident on both surfaces. ♂ several together on very short axillary peduncles; calyx 0; corolla subcampanulate, lobes 4-5, oblong-triangular, acuminate, ciliolate; stamens 4-6. ♀ solitary on short axillary peduncles; calyx truncate, teeth 2; corolla tubular, lobes narrow-triangular, acute to subacuminate, < tube. Drupe red, broad-oblong, 7-8 mm. long.

2n = 44