Botanical descriptions Ecology Distribution Literature
| Habit : | Large shrubs or small trees ca. 4 m tall. |
| Trunk\bark : | Bark grey, smooth; blaze white. |
| Branchlets : | Young branchlets subterete to compressed, glabrous. |
| Leaves : | Leaves simple, opposite, decussate; stipules intrapetiolar, sheathing, caducous and leaving scar; petiole 0.5-1.5 cm, planoconvex in cross section, glabrous; lamina 5-9 x 2-3.5 cm, obovate to oblanceolate, apex shortly and abruptly acuminate to acute, base attenuate - decurrent, margin entire and revolute, glabrous; midrib and secondary_nerves raised above; secondary_nerves 10-12 pairs, domatia present at the axils of secondary_nerves; tertiary_nerves broadly reticulate. |
| Flowers : | Inflorescence terminal, in whorled branches terminating in cymes; flowers white, sessile. |
| Fruit& seed : | Drupe, with two planoconvex pyrenes; seeds 1 per pyrene. |