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| Habit : | Small trees, up to 6 m tall. |
| Trunk & Bark : | Bark finely fissured; blaze pinkish white. |
| Branches and Branchlets : | Branchlets terete, glabrous. |
| Leaves : | Leaves simple, opposite, decussate; petiole 0.5-0.9 cm long; lamina 2.5-8 × 1-5 cm narrow elliptic, elliptic, oblong-lanceolate, apex obtusely acuminate or acute, base acute, margin entire or distally serrulate near apex; chartaceous, glabrous; midrib thinly raised above; secondary_nerves 6-8 pairs, slender; tertiary and higher order nerves obscure. |
| Inflorescence / Flower : | Flowers more than 7 in spreading axillary cymes, red. |
| Fruit and Seed : | Capsule obcordate; seeds 1-2 per cell. |