Anneslea fragrans is a species of shrubs or trees, 3–15 meters tall. It is native to Cambodia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, Thailand and Vietnam, growing in forests or thickets on mountain slopes or in valleys. Bark dark brown. Young branches grayish brown; current year branchlets reddish brown. Leaf blade ovate, elliptic, obovate-elliptic, oblong, or oblong-lanceolate; leathery to thinly leathery, pale green or glaucescent green and reddish brown glandular punctate. Synonyms include Callosmia fragrans and Mountnorrisia Fragrans.