Tree to 12 m high. Stem usually not buttressed. Twigs 4-angled and pubescent when young, eventually terete and glabrescent. Leaves opposite; petiole 5–10 mm long; lamina lanceolate to ovate to elliptic, 5–9.5 mm long, 2–3.5 mm wide, triveined, ± glaucous below, eventually ± glabrescent. Inflorescence approximating or exceeding leaves. Flowers opening widely with tepals remaining ± erect, creamy green, perfumed. Tepals 3.5–5 mm long, 2.1–3.5 mm wide, sericeous. Outer anthers 1.4–1.9 mm long, c. 1.2 mm wide, pubescent; filaments 1.6–1.7 mm long. Inner anthers 1.1–1.8 mm long, 0.9–1 mm wide, pubescent; filaments 1.6–2.3 mm long. Ovary 1.6–1.7 mm long, 1.2–1.4 mm wide, with upper half hairy; style sparsely pubescent; stigma cumuloid. Fruit carpel globular to ellipsoidal, c. 13.5 mm long, 11.5 mm wide, blue-black; cup apex lobed. Cotyledons white.
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