[4][5][6] The leaves are opposite and chartaceous (thin and flexible) with wavy edges, glossy mid green above and paler below, and are attached to the twigs on a petiole around 9 mm (0.35 in) long.

[4][5][6] Flowers are terminal, solitary, actinomorphic and 6-merous, borne on pedicels between 5 and 15 mm (0.20 and 0.59 in) long.

This species is dioecious – that is, male and female flowers are produced on separate plants – with little variation in size between the two sexes.

Puttock from samples collected by Geoff Tracey and Leonard Webb in 1973 from Oliver Creek, near Cape Tribulation, Queensland.

Puttock's paper was published in Austrobaileya, the annual journal of the Queensland Herbarium, in 1988.