Botanical descriptions Ecology Distribution Status: Literatures
| Habit : | Small trees up to 4 m tall. |
| Branches and branchlets : | Young branchlets terete, densely scaly. |
| Leaves : | Leaves simple, alternate, spiral; petiole 0.5-1 cm long, canaliculate, scaly when young; lamina 5.5-11.4 x 3-5 cm, elliptic-lanceolate to elliptic-oblanceolate , apex caudate-acuminate, base cuneate, margin crenate-serrate, transparent gland dotted, scaly beneath; midrib canaliculate above; secondary_nerves ca. 14 pairs, strong, impressed above, looped near margin; tertiary_nerves reticulo-percurrent. |
| Inflorescence / Flower : | Inflorescence axillary or terminal umbellate cymes; flowers white to pink. |
| Fruit and Seed : | Berry, globose, black; seed one. |