Botanical descriptions Ecology Distribution Literature
| Habit : | Small trees up to 5 m tall. |
| Trunk\bark : | Bark brown, smooth; blaze brown. |
| Branchlets : | Young branchlets angular with two lateral ridges, glabrous. |
| Leaves : | Leaves simple, alternate, distichous; petiole 0.3-1 cm long, canaliculate, glabrous; lamina 2.5-10 x 1.5-4 cm, elliptic to elliptic-oblanceolate, apex acuminate with retuse tip, base acute to cuneate, margin serrulate, glabrous, coriaceous, dark green and shining above, pale beneath; midrib slightly canaliculate above; secondary_nerves up to 8 pairs, impressed above; tertiary_nerves broadly reticulate. |
| Flowers : | Flowers unisexual, greenish-white, in axillary fascicles, subsessile. |
| Fruit& seed : | Berry, globose, purplish black when ripe; seeds many. |