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A shrub or tree. It grows to 12 m high. The bark is grey and peels off in irregular scales. The branches have 4 lines. The leaf blades are dark green above and greyish green underneath. They are 4-10 cm long and 2-4 cm wide. There are several flowers in a group in the axils of leaves. They are green to yellow. The fruit is fleshy and yellow. It is oval and 13-18 mm long. There is one seed.
Cymes in axil of foliage leaves; peduncle 3–25 mm. long; flowers numerous in each dichasium, c. 4 mm. in diam., in subglobose clusters, bisexual.
Tree 2–12(20) m. high; branches 4-lined and vinous red when young, becoming terete with prominent whitish lenticels and eventually greyish.
Drupe yellow or greenish-yellow, drying dark red, 13–18 mm. long, subglobose to ellipsoid or obovoid, smooth.
Petals 5, green to yellow, 1–1·5 mm. long, oblong or elliptic-oblong, with margin paler, entire.
Ovary 3-locular, broadly ovoid-conic, c. 2/3-immersed in disk.
Disk slightly 5-angled, patelliform, puberulous.
Sepals 5, c. 0·3 mm. long, semicircular, entire.
Stamens 5.
Seed 1.
