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Habit : | Trees up to 20 m tall. |
Trunk & Bark : | Bark brown, smooth; blaze brownish. |
Branches and branchlets : | Young branchlets quadrangular, glabrous. |
Leaves : | Leaves simple, opposite, decussate; petiole 0.2-0.3 cm, canaliculate glabrous; lamina 2.5-3.5 x 1.5-3 cm, obovate or suborbicular, apex shortly acuminate with blunt tip and sometimes obtuse, base acute, margin entire, glabrous, pellucid gland dotted, coriaceous; midrib canaliculate above; intramarginal nerve present; secondary_nerves many, parallel; tertiary_nerves admedially ramified. |
Inflorescence / Flower : | Inflorescence terminal corymbs, axillary or lateral; flowers white. . |
Fruit and Seed : | Berry, oblong or obovoid, dark purple. |