Botanical descriptions Ecology Distribution Literature
| Habit : | Large shrubs or small trees ca. 5 m tall. |
| Branchlets : | Young branchlets subterete to compressed, glabrous. |
| Leaves : | Leaves simple, opposite, decussate; stipules intrapetiolar, foliaceous, lanceolate, sheathing, glabrous; petiole 1-2 cm long, planoconvex in cross section, glabrous; lamina 12-25 x 4.5-10.5 cm, obovate or oblanceolate, apex obtuse or rounded and abruptly shortly acuminate, base cuneate to decurrent, margin entire, thickly coriaceous, glabrous; midrib raised above; secondary_nerves 12-20 pairs, parallel; tertiary_nerves obscure or broadly reticulate if visible. |
| Flowers : | Inflorescence with whorls of branches terminating in heads of flowers; bracts and bracteoles large, persistent; flowers white, subsessile. |
| Fruit& seed : | Drupe, ovoid, ca. 1 cm long, crowned with calyx lobes, with two planoconvex pyrenes; seeds 1 per pyrene. . |