Botanical descriptions Ecology Distribution Literatures
| Habit : | Small trees up to 5 m tall. |
| Trunk & Bark : | Bark pale brown, lenticellate; blaze white. |
| Branches and branchlets : | Young branchlets terete, minutely pubescent, lenticellate. |
| Leaves : | Leaves simple, opposite, distichous, sometimes subopposite; petiole up to 1 cm long, canaliculate; lamina 1.5-5 (7.5) x 1.2-3.2 (-5) cm, elliptic to elliptic-obovate, apex acute or short acuminate with mucronate tip, base rounded to attenuate, margin entire, chartaceous, glabrous beneath; midrib canaliculate above; secondary_nerves 3-6 pairs, slender; tertiary_nerves obscure. |
| Inflorescence / Flower : | Inflorescence terminal thyrsoid panicles, stout, short, dense, glabrous; flowers white, fragrant. |
| Fruit and Seed : | Drupe, obovoid, ca. 2 cm long, dark purple; seeds 1-3. |