Botanical descriptions Ecology Distribution Literature
| Habit : | Small trees up to 7 m tall. |
| Trunk\bark : | Trunk thorny; bark smooth, greyish-white; blaze yellowish. |
| Branchlets : | Young branchlets green, terete, glabrous, with axillary spines. |
| Leaves : | Leaves simple, alternate, spiral; petiole 0.4-0.8 cm long, canaliculate in cross section, glabrous; lamina 8.5-17.5 x 4-7.5, elliptic to elliptic-oblong or ovate, apex acute with blunt tip or obtuse, base rounded, margin entire, coriaceous, glabrous; midrib flat or slightly canaliculate above; secondary_nerves 3-5 pairs, ascending, often lower most pair opposite; tertiary_nerves slender, reticulo-percurrent. |
| Flowers : | Inflorescence axillary spikes; flowers polygamous, red, sessile. |
| Fruit& seed : | Drupe, pyriform, 3 cm long, red; seed one. |