Botanical descriptions Ecology Distribution Literature
| Habit : | Trees up to 15 m tall. |
| Trunk\bark : | Trunk fluted; bark reddish brown, irregularly large flaky; blaze pinkish. |
| Branchlets : | Trunk and branches thorny; young branchlets terete, lenticellate, grey pubescent, later glabrous. |
| Exudates : | Latex white, profuse. |
| Leaves : | Leaves simple, alternate, spiral; petiole 0.4-0.7 cm long, planoconvex in cross section, pubescent; lamina 4-10 X 2-5 cm, narrow obovate to elliptic-obovate, apex subacute or obtuse, base cuneate or attenuate, margin entire, coriaceous, glabrous except midrib; midrib flat above; secondary nerves 10-12; tertiary nerves admedially ramified. |
| Flowers : | Flowers in axillary clusters, white; pedicel ca. 0.7 cm long. |
| Fruit& seed : | Berry, ovoid-ellipsoid, ca. 2.5 cm long; seed one. |