Trees or shrubs. Branchlets gray-brown when dried, at first stellate pilose. Leaves simple; stipules ovate, hairy, apex acute, caducous; petiole 3-6.5 cm, swollen at both ends, minutely pilose; leaf blade elliptic-oblanceolate, 7-17 × 6-9.5 cm, thinly leathery, abaxially subglabrous, midrib and veins yellowish brown puberulent, veins drying purple-red, adaxially glabrous, with veins obviously impressed, lateral veins 14-16 on each side of midrib, curved upward, base obtuse, margins entire or slightly sinuate, apex caudate or long acuminate. Flowers unknown. Follicles purple-red when dried, oblong, ca. 5.5 × 1.5-1.8 cm, 4- or 5-seeded, densely purple-brown stellate tomentose, apex with 1-1.2 cm beak. Seeds purple-red, globose or flattened reniform, ca. 1 cm in diam.

● SE Yunnan (Malipo).