Botanical descriptions Ecology Distribution Literature
| Habit : | Large shrubs or small trees up to 5 m tall. |
| Trunk\bark : | Bark brown, rough. |
| Branchlets : | Branchlets corky, with short internodes, glabrous. |
| Leaves : | Leaves simple, opposite, decussate; stipule broadly ovate and subulate, interpetiolar, caducous and leaving scar; petiole 0.5-1.3 cm long, planoconvex in cross section, glabrous; lamina 7.5-15 (-20) x 2.5- 7.5 cm, narrow elliptic to oblanceolate, apex acute to acuminate, base acute to cuneate, margin slightly revolute, coriaceous, glabrous; midrib raised above; secondary_nerves 12-16 pairs; tertiary_nerves reticulo-percurrent. |
| Flowers : | Inflorescence terminal corymbose cymes; flowers subsessile, rosy tinge. |
| Fruit& seed : | Berry, globose, ca. 0.9 cm across; seed two. |