Botanical descriptions Ecology Distribution Literatures
| Habit : | Large trees up to 20 m tall. |
| Trunk & Bark : | Bark grey or brown, irregularly flaky; blaze brownish. |
| Branches and branchlets : | Young branchlets subterete to slightly quadrangular, glabrous. |
| Leaves : | Leaves simple, opposite, decussate; petiole 1-2.5 cm, canaliculate, glabrous; lamina 7-15 x 3-7 cm, variable in shape, elliptic to wide elliptic or narrow ovate - oblong, apex acute to acuminate with blunt tip, base acute to attenuate or rounded, margin entire, coriaceous, pellucid gland dotted (glands sometimes not visible in thick coriaceous leaves); midrib canaliculate; intramarginal nerve present; secondary_nerves close, parallel; tertiary_nerves admedially ramified. |
| Inflorescence / Flower : | Inflorescence corymbose panicled cyme, in axills of fallen leaves; flowers white. |
| Fruit and Seed : | Berry globose or oblong, crowned by persistent calyx, purple, edible; seed one. |