Botanical descriptions Ecology Distribution Literatures
| Habit : | Small trees up to 8 m tall. |
| Trunk & Bark : | Bark grey, smooth shining, covered with raised corky lenticels; blaze dull orange. |
| Branches and branchlets : | Young branchlets subterete, glabrous, whitish. |
| Leaves : | Leaves simple, opposite, decussate; petiole 0.5-1.2 cm long, canaliculate, glabrous; lamina 5-14.5 x 2.5-5 cm, elliptic-obovate, apex abruptly acuminate or sometimes rounded, base cuneate, margin entire or slightly revolute, coriaceous, drying olive green, glabrous beneath; midrib canaliculate above; secondary nerves very slender, nearly parallel; tertiary and higher order nerves obscure. |
| Inflorescence / Flower : | Inflorescence few flowered cymes or on axillary fascicles; slender peduncles; flowers sessile, yellowish white. . |
| Fruit and Seed : | Drupe, ellipsoid, or ovoid, 1.5 cm long; seed one. |