Botanical descriptions Ecology Distribution Literatures
| Habit : | Trees up to 20 m tall. |
| Trunk & Bark : | Bark smooth, greyish brown, blaze cream. |
| Branches and branchlets : | Branchlets terete, glabrous. |
| Leaves : | Leaves simple, opposite, decussate; petiole 0.5-1.5 cm long, canaliculate, glabrous; lamina 7.5-19 x 2.5-8 cm, elliptic, oblanceolate, apex acuminate and twisted or acute with blunt tip, base acute to cuneate, margin entire, pellucid gland dotted, coriaceous, glabrous; midrib canaliculate above; intramarginal nerve present (sometimes obscure); midrib slightly canaliculate above; secondary_nerves 8-12 pairs; tertiary_nerves horizontally reticulo-percurrent. |
| Inflorescence / Flower : | Flowers large, white, in terminal cymes; pedicels 0.5 cm long; calyx tube obconic. |
| Fruit and Seed : | Berry, 2-2.5 cm across, hemispherical, purple, crowned by calyx lobes. |