Botanical descriptions Ecology Distribution status Literature
| Habit : | Large shrub or small trees up to 4 m tall. |
| Trunk\bark : | Bark greyish white, irregularly flaky when mature. |
| Branchlets : | Young branchlets angular, glabrous. |
| Leaves : | Leaves simple, opposite, decussate; stipules intrapetiolar, sheathing, caducous and leaving scar; petioles 0.3-0.7 cm long, planoconvex in cross section, glabrous; lamina 4.5-10 × 1.5-2 cm, narrowly elliptic to narrowly obovate, apex acute to shortly acuminate, base attenuate, margin entire, glabrous; midrib raised above; secondary_nerves ca. 9 pairs; tertiary_nerves broadly reticulate. |
| Flowers : | Inflorescence corymbose cymes, terminal, few flowered; flowers white; pedicel up to 0.4 cm long. |
| Fruit& seed : | Berry, with 2 pyrenes; seeds one per pyrene. |