Botanical descriptions Ecology Distribution Literatures
| Habit : | Trees up to 5 m tall. |
| Trunk & Bark : | Bark brown, scaly; blaze cream. |
| Branches and branchlets : | Young branchlets terete, grey tomentose. |
| Leaves : | Leaves simple, opposite, decussate; petiole 0.5-0.8 cm long, planoconvex in cross section, grey tomentose; lamina 3-7.5 x 1.3-4.5 cm, elliptic, apex acute with mucronate tip, base acute to obtuse, margin entire and recurved, grey tomentose beneath, coriaceous; midrib flat above; 3-nerved suprabasally; lateral nerves reaching leaf apex; intramarginal nerve present; higher order nerves strongly reticulate. |
| Inflorescence / Flower : | Inflorescence cymes, axillary, up to 8 flowered; flowers large; pedicel 0.5 cm long; petals rosy white; stamens many, rosy-pink. |
| Fruit and Seed : | Berry, subglobose, 1 cm across, crowned with calyx lobes; seeds many, renifom, compressed. |