Botanical descriptions Ecology Distribution Literature
| Habit : | Large shrubs or small trees ca. 4 m tall. |
| Branchlets : | Young branchlets usually triangular, glabrous. |
| Leaves : | Leaves simple, opposite, decussate, sometimes ternate; stipules lanceolate, 1.9-2.5 cm long, glabrous, intrapetiolar, sheathing; petiole 1.5-4 cm long, planoconvex in cross section, glabrous; lamina 15-25 x 4-7.5 cm, oblanceolate, apex shortly acuminate, base cuneate - decurrent, margin entire, subcoriaceous to coriaceous, glabrous; midrib raised above; secondary_nerves 8-13 pairs; tertiary_nerves broadly reticulo-percurrent. |
| Flowers : | Inflorescence terminal corymbose cymes; flowers white. |
| Fruit& seed : | Drupe, oblong, purple to 3 cm long, with two planoconvex pyrenes; seeds 1 per pyrene. |