Cassine parvifolia Sond.

Evergreen shrub or tree, up to 4 m high. Branchlets angular to terete, brownish purple. Leaves opposite or subopposite, finely leathery, glossy dark green above, paler below; lamina elliptic to obovate, 15-45(-55) x 5-15(-25) mm, apex acute, rounded to emarginate, base attenuate, margins entire, rolled under; petioles 2-4 mm long. Inflorescences axillary, sessile, 1-8-flowered cymes. Flowers cream-coloured to white; pedicels 2-3 mm long. Sepals deltoid, 1 x 1 mm, margins laciniate. Petals oblong, ± 2.2 x 1.0 mm. Stamens arising from margin of disc. Ovary 2-locular. Fruit baccate, spherical, ± 7-10 mm in diam., brown to purplish when ripe. Seeds 1-3, brown.