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Habit : | Small trees up to 8 m tall. |
Branches and branchlets : | Branchlets terete, glabrous. |
Leaves : | Leaves simple, opposite, decussate; petiole ca. 0.2 cm long, canaliculate, glabrous; lamina 3-9.5 x 1.3-4.5 cm, elliptic to narrow elliptic, apex caudate-acuminate with blunt tip, base acute to rounded, margin entire, pellucid gland dotted, coriaceous, glabrous; midrib canaliculate above; intramarginal nerve present; secondary_nerves 9-11 pairs, sometimes obscure; tertiary_nerves admedially ramified. |
Inflorescence / Flower : | Flowers solitary or in pairs, axillary or lateral, white. . |
Fruit and Seed : | Berry, globose, to 2 cm across, crowned with calyx lobes, glabrous; seed one. |