Botanical descriptions Ecology Distribution Literature
| Habit : | Large shrubs or small trees up to 5 m tall. |
| Trunk\bark : | Bark brown, rough; blaze brown. |
| Branchlets : | Branches horizontal; branchlets subterete to compressed, puberulous when young, later glabrous. |
| Leaves : | Leaves simple, opposite, decussate; stipule small, triangular, interpetiolar, persistent; petiole 0.7 cm long, planoconvex in cross section, glabrous; lamina 6 x 2.5 cm, elliptic-oblong to obovate, apex abruptly acuminate with mucronate tip, base acute, margin entire, subcoriaceous, glabrous; midrib slightly raised or flat above; secondary_nerves 3-4 pairs; tertiary_nerves horizontally closely percurrent. |
| Flowers : | Inflorescence cymes, axillary or from leafless branches; flowers sessile, white. |
| Fruit& seed : | Drupe, globose, surmounted with persistent calyx lobes, dark purple when ripe; seeds 4. |