Botanical descriptions Ecology Distribution Literature
| Habit : | Evergreen trees up to 10 m tall. |
| Trunk\bark : | Bark greyish, smooth; blaze red. |
| Branchlets : | Branchlets stout, terete, glabrous. |
| Leaves : | Leaves simple, opposite or subopposite, decussate; petiole 1.5-3.3 cm long, canaliculate, glabrous, articulate, swollen at both ends; lamina 7-17 x 3.5-7.5 cm, elliptic, apex bluntly acuminate and curved back or sometimes obtuse to retuse, base cuneate-acute, margin entire, coriaceous or subcoriaceous, glabrous; midrib slightly raised above; secondary_nerves 7-10 pairs; tertiary_nerves broadly reticulate. |
| Flowers : | Inflorescence axillary corymbose cymes; flowers yellowish white; pedicel ca. 1 cm long. |
| Fruit& seed : | Drupe, 4-celled, subglobose, usually broader than long, slightly grooved, 0.8 x 1.2 cm; seed one per cell. |