Kew Bulleting 57:130

Plants trees to 25 m tall. Leaves slightly coriaceous; petioles 10-15 mm long; blades ovate to lanceolate-elliptic, (4-)7-10(-15) cm long, (2-)2.5-5(-7) cm wide, with 608 primary veins on both sides of the midribs, both surfaces with scattered peltate scales, lower surfaces with domatia in the axils of the midribs and primary eins, bases acute to obtuse or rounded, attenuating into the petioles, tips acuminate becoming acute. Inflorescences  terminal, paniculate, 7-10 cm long. many-flowered; pedicels 0-2 mm long. Calyces 1-1.5 mm long, lobes more or less triangular, about 0,5 mm long; corollas white or creamy white, valvate, spherical in bud,; corolla tubes about 1 mm long; corolla lobes ovate-triangular, 1.8-2 mm long, reflexed at anthesis; stamens exserted; filaments 1-1.5 mm long; anthers rounded-elliptic, 1.5-2 mm long, with a very small terminal appendage; ovaries bottle-shaped 1-1.5 mm long. Drupes pyriform-ovoid, 12-15 mm long, 6-8 mm wide.

Olea paniculata is native from India to China and the southwestern Pacific.