Botanical descriptions Ecology Distribution Literatures
| Habit : | Trees up to 25 m tall. |
| Trunk & Bark : | Branches usually horizontal; sometimes with fleshy adventiuous roots on trunk; bark grey, smooth when young, later with large and corky lenticels; blaze brownish. |
| Branches and branchlets : | Ultimate branchlets slightly angular, glabrous, corky lenticellate. |
| Leaves : | Leaves simple, opposite, decussate; stipules interpetiolar, caducous and leaving scar; petiole 0.3-0.5 cm long, planoconvex in cross section, glabrous; lamina 7-10 (-12.6) x 4-6.5 cm wide obovate or wide elliptic, apex acute to obtuse, base cuneate, margin entire and revolute, coriaceous, glabrous beneath, drying brown; midrib canaliculate above; secondary_nerves 6-10 pairs; tertiary_nerves obscure. |
| Inflorescence / Flower : | Inflorescence cymes; flowers sessile, cream. |
| Fruit and Seed : | Drupe, red, 0.5 cm across, globose; seed one, reniform. |