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Botanical descriptions Ecology Distribution Status: Literatures
Habit : | Large trees up to 15 m tall. |
Trunk & Bark : | Bark grey, smooth. |
Branches and branchlets : | Young branchlets subterete, glabrous. |
Leaves : | Leaves simple, opposite, decussate; petiole 1-2.3 cm long, canaliculate, glabrous; lamina 4-8 x 2.5-3 cm, elliptic, apex acuminate to caudate, base acute to attenuate, margin entire, pellucid gland dotted, coriaceous, glabrous, olive green when dry; midrib canaliculate above; intramarginal nerve present; secondary_nerves many, parallel, slender; tertiary_nerves obscure to admedially ramified. |
Inflorescence / Flower : | Inflorescence dense cymose umbellules, terminal; flowers white. |
Fruit and Seed : | Berry oblong, crowned by persistent calyx, purple; seed one. |