Botanical descriptions Ecology Distribution Literature
| Habit : | Large shrubs or small trees ca. 5 m tall. |
| Trunk\bark : | Bark grey, smooth. |
| Branchlets : | Branchlets quadrangular, densely stellate tomentose. |
| Leaves : | Leaves simple, opposite, decussate; petiole 2.5-7.5 cm long, terete, densely white stellate tomentose; lamina 10.5-25 x 5.5-15 cm, elliptic to broadly elliptic or ovate, apex acute or acuminate, base acute, thinly coriaceous, glaucous, densely white stellate tomentose beneath; secondary_nerves and reticulation impressed above; midrib raised above; secondary_nerves 6-9 pairs; tertiary_nerves distantly obliquely percurrent. |
| Flowers : | Inflorescence branched cymes, axillary; flowers purple, sessile. |
| Fruit& seed : | Drupe, globose, black, shining, 4 pyrenes; seeds 3-4. |