Leptaulus

Evergreen shrubs or small trees; bark pale grey-brown. Leaves alternate, elliptic to narrowly elliptic, entire, rather coriaceous, petiolate. Flowers bisexual, in subumbellate cymes or solitary, white, drying chrome-yellow. Calyx deeply 5-lobed; lobes slightly imbricate. Petals 5, united nearly to apex, valvate with inflexed tips. Stamens 5, alternating with petals and adnate to them for most of their length. Ovary with a somewhat excentric style as long as corolla tube; stigma funnel-shaped. Fruit an oblong-ellipsoid drupe. Seed oblong-ellipsoid.