Botanical descriptions Ecology Distribution Literatures
| Habit : | Large shrubs to small trees up to 5 m tall. |
| Trunk & Bark : | Bark brownish, smooth. |
| Branches and branchlets : | Young branchlets terete, pubescent; young flush reddish. |
| Leaves : | Leaves simple, opposite, decussate; petiole 0.5-0.8 cm long, canaliculate, pubescent when young; lamina 7-14.5 x 2.7-5.5 cm, elliptic or elliptic-ovate, apex acuminate with blunt tip, base acute, margin entire, chartaceous, glabrous; midrib canaliculate above; secondary_nerves 10-15 pairs, not prominent, joining as loop near margin; tertiary_nerves broadly reticulate. |
| Inflorescence / Flower : | Flowers white, sessile, axillary or lateral from the leafless axils, solitary or in pairs. |
| Fruit and Seed : | Berry, crowned with calyx lobes; seed one. |