Evergreen shrub or small tree, up to 12 meters high, crown ovate. Bark chestnut brown, branchlets dark green. Leaves are simple and alternate, leathery, rectangular, glabrous on both sides, entire, with undulating margins, dark green and glossy on the surface, light green on the abaxial surface. Petiole purplish. Dioecious, flowering in April, cymes clustered between leaf axils, flowers small, yellow. Drupe ovoid, ripe in September, dark brown when ripe~