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| Habit : | Trees up to 8 m tall. |
| Trunk & Bark : | Bark pale brown, fissured, thinly flaky when old; blaze yellowish brown. |
| Branches and Branchlets : | Branchlets terete, glabrous. |
| Leaves : | Leaves simple, opposite, decussate; petiole ca. 1 cm long, canaliculate, glabrous; lamina 1.8-8.5 x 0.8-3.8 cm, elliptic to elliptic-ovate, apex acuminate, sometimes acute, base acute to subattenuate, margin entire, coriaceous, glabrous, drying brown; midrib canaliculate; secondary_nerves obscure; tertiary_nerves obscure. |
| Inflorescence / Flower : | Inflorescence clusters of distinctly peduncled dense cymose umbels, axillary or on lateral tubercles; flowers deep blue. |
| Fruit and Seed : | Berry, globose, yellow, 0.5 cm across, seed 1. |