Botanical descriptions Ecology Distribution Literatures
| Habit : | Trees up to 7 m tall. |
| Trunk & Bark : | Bark white, smooth; blaze brown. |
| Branches and branchlets : | Branchlets terete, slender, glabrous. |
| Leaves : | Leaves simple, opposite, decussate; petiole 0.5-0.7 cm long, canaliculate, glabrous; leaf blade 6.5-13.5 x 2.5-6 cm, usually elliptic, sometimes narrow-elliptic, apex acuminate to caudate acuminate with blunt tip, base acute to attenuate or cuneate, margin entire, chartaceous, pellucid gland dotted; midrib canaliculate above; secondary_nerves 9-12 pairs, distant; tertiary_nerves horizontally reticulo-percurrent. |
| Inflorescence / Flower : | Inflorescence in terminal or axillary divaricate cymes or solitary; flowers large; stamens numerous, crimson. |
| Fruit and Seed : | Berry, ovoid, 2.5 - 3 cm long, crowned with persistent calyx. |