Botanical descriptions Ecology Distribution Literature
| Habit : | Large shrub or small trees up to 4 m tall. |
| Trunk\bark : | Bark grey, smooth. |
| Branchlets : | Young branchlets angular, terete when mature, glabrous. |
| Leaves : | Leaves simple, opposite, decussate; stipules lanceolate, intrapetiolar, sheathing, caducous and leaving scar; petioles 1-1.5 cm long, planoconvex in cross section, glabrous; lamina 8-10 x 2.5-3 cm, obovate - oblanceolate, apex acute, base attenuate, margin entire, prominently glandular between secondary_nerves, glabrous beneath; midrib raised above; secondary_nerves 6-9 pairs; tertiary_nerves broadly reticulate. |
| Flowers : | Inflorescence corymbose cymes, terminal or axillary; flowers white; pedicel 0.3 cm long. |
| Fruit& seed : | Berry, with 2 pyrenes; seeds one per pyrene. |