Botanical descriptions Ecology Distribution Literature
| Habit : | Small trees. |
| Trunk\bark : | Trunk with short simple or branched thorns; bark grey, lenticellate; blaze yellowish. |
| Branchlets : | Young branchlets subterete, glabrous. |
| Leaves : | Leaves simple, opposite, decussate; stipule linear, interpetiolar, caducous and leaving scar; petiole ca. 0.8 cm long, planoconvex in cross section, glabrous; lamina 3.5-7.5 x 1.3-3, obovate, apex obtuse to shortly acuminate with blunt tip, base attenuate, margin entire, coriaceous, glabrous beneath; midrib raised above; secondary_nerves ca. 6 pairs, domatia present at axils; tertiary_nerves obscure. |
| Flowers : | Inflorescence umbel like corymbs, axillary; flowers white-cream; pedicel ca. 0.5 cm long. |
| Fruit& seed : | Berry, globose, with crown of persistent calyx lobes; seeds many. |