Botanical descriptions Ecology Distribution Literatures
| Habit : | Trees up to 10 m tall. |
| Trunk & Bark : | Bark yellowish brown, lenticellate. |
| Branches and branchlets : | Young branchlets terete, glabrous. |
| Leaves : | Leaves simple, alternate, spiral; stipule caducous; petiole 0.7-1 cm long, planoconvex in cross section, glabrous, reddish when young; lamina 4.5-11.5 x 2-7.5 cm, usually obovate, sometimes oblanceolate or broadly elliptic to suborbicular, apex obtuse to rounded or rarely retuse or emarginate, base cuneate or attenuate, margin entire and revolute, coriaceous or subcoriaceous, shiny above, glabrous, pellucid gland dotted; midrib raised above; secondary_nerves 6-7 pairs; tertiary_nerves broadly reticulate. |
| Inflorescence / Flower : | Flowers in axillary fascicles, 4-6 in clusters, greenish, ca. 0.4 cm across. |
| Fruit and Seed : | Capsule, ellipsoid, fleshy, ca 1.7 cm long, yellow when ripe, 2-valved; seeds 6-9, aril orange red. |