Botanical descriptions Ecology Distribution Literature
| Habit : | Small trees up to 5 m tall. |
| Trunk\bark : | Bark grey, lenticellate; blaze cream. |
| Branchlets : | Young branchlets slender, striate, terete stellate hairy, later glabrous. |
| Leaves : | Leaves simple, alternate, distichous; stipules lateral, caducous and leaving scar; petiole 0.7-1.3 cm long, terete or slightly canaliculate at apex, swollen at both ends, sparsely stellate hairy when young, later glabrous; lamina 8-16 x 2.3-6.3 cm, narrow elliptic or narrow elliptic-oblong, apex caudate (acumen 1.5-4 cm long), base acute to rounded, margin entire or distantly irregularly crenulate at least towards apex, chartaceous, glabrous or with few scattered stellate hairs beneath when young; midrib thinly raised or flat above; trinerved at base; secondary_nerves 4-6 pairs, ascending, looped; tertiary_nerves distantly horizontally percurrent. |
| Flowers : | Inflorescence axillary short cymes; flowers greenish-white; pedicel 0.3 cm long. |
| Fruit& seed : | Capsule, obovoid, to 1.8 cm long; seeds 1-3, with orange-red aril. |