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Botanical descriptions Ecology Distribution Status Literatures
| Habit : | Large shrubs ca. 4 m tall. |
| Trunk & Bark : | Bark grey, flaky. |
| Branches and Branchlets : | Branchlets stout, strongly 4-angled with narrow wings. |
| Leaves : | Leaves simple, opposite, decussate; petiole sessile or subsessile (ca. 0.2 cm long), glabrous; lamina 20-40 x 6-14 cm, long lanceolate and tapering into acuminate apex, base rounded or subcordate, margin entire, thickly coriaceous; midrib canaliculate above; secondary_nerves strong, parallel, and joining into intramarginal_nerve, ca. 24 pairs; tertiary_nerves broadly reticulate. |
| Inflorescence / Flower : | Inflorescence axillary, lax pedunculate, umbellate cymes; peduncle 6-12 cm long, stout, 4-angled; flowers many, bluish violet. |
| Fruit and Seed : | Berry, globose, 0.8-1.2 cm diameter, crowned by calyx limb, dark purple when ripe; seed 1. |