Botanical descriptions Ecology Distribution Literature
| Habit : | Large shrubs or small trees up to 5 m tall. |
| Trunk\bark : | Bark brown, smooth. |
| Branchlets : | Branches horizontal; young branchlets subterete to compressed, villous, glabrous when mature. |
| Leaves : | Leaves simple, opposite, decussate; stipule triangular, interpetiolar, persistent; petiole to 1 cm long, planoconvex in cross section, pubescent when young; lamina 5.5-16.5 x 2.5-4 cm, narrow elliptic to elliptic-oblong, apex acuminate, base acute, margin entire, glabrous; midrib canaliculate above; secondary_nerves 6-7 pairs; tertiary_nerves horizontally closely percurrent. |
| Flowers : | Inflorescence cymes, axillary or from leafless branches; flowers sessile, white. |
| Fruit& seed : | Drupe, globose, surmounted with persistent calyx lobes; seeds 4. |