Botanical descriptions Ecology Distribution Literature
| Habit : | Small trees, up to 7 m tall. |
| Trunk\bark : | Bark brownish, scaly when mature; blaze pinkish. |
| Branchlets : | Young branchlets quadrangular, glabrous. |
| Leaves : | Leaves simple, opposite, decussate; stipule broadly ovate, interpetiolar, to 0.5 cm long, glabrous; petiole 0.4-1.2 cm long, planoconvex in cross section, glabrous; lamina 8-18 x 3.4-6.8 cm, elliptic-oblong to oblanceolate, apex obtuse to subacute, base attenuate to cuneate or acute, margin entire or slightly undulate, coriaceous, glabrous; midrib flat above; secondary_nerves ca. 12 pairs; tertiary broadly reticulate. |
| Flowers : | Inflorescence panicled cyme, terminal; flowers small, sessile, white, fragrant. |
| Fruit& seed : | Berry, globose, 0.6 cm long, reddish when ripe; seeds 2. |