Small tree, (3) 4-5 (7) m tall; young stems, petioles, and lower surface of blades with sparse appressed-ferruginous pubescence, soon glabrous. Petioles to 6 mm long; blades lanceolate to oblong-elliptic or oblanceolate, acuminate, acute and decurrent at base, 4-11.5 cm long, 1.5-3.5 cm wide. Flowers solitary, on sterns opposite leaves; pedicels to 1.6 cm long, bearing a small bracteole near base; flower buds depressed-globose; calyx ca 5 mm long, saucer-shaped with 3 minute lobes, with appressed-ferruginous pubescence; petals 3, valvate, white, green in bud, ovate-rounded, thick, obtuse at apex, 10-15 mm long; stamens 2.5 mm long, numerous. Fruits fleshy aggregates, green, 2-3 cm wide, 1.8-2.3 cm long, rounded above, flat below, the surface covered with prominent projections 1-2 mm high, subtended by the thick, flattened, 3-sided calyx, bursting open irregularly from apex at maturity to expose bright orange interior; seeds 1 per carpel, broadest at apex, gradually tapered to base, weakly angulate, ca 1 cm long, tan. Croat 4379, 11757.