Botany
A shrub or small tree, growing to a height of 5 meters. The bark is ashy gray, mottled, and smooth. Leaves are alternate, smooth, elliptically oblong, about 15 cm long and 6 cm wide at the largest, with pointed tip and a blunt or rounded base. Flowers are yellowish, about 1.5 cm long, borne in fairly small, rounded clusters. Fruit is pendant and orange-red, containing a single seed and two locules across which splits on opening, slightly obovoid or broadly ellipsoid and about 1.5 cm long. Seeds are ovoidly compressed, about 7.5 mm long.

Distribution
In primary forests at low and medium altitudes.

Parts used
Bark, wood, fruit

Uses
Folkloric
• Bark and roots used for stopping the flow of blood from wounds.
• Bark, wood and fruit used as substitute for quinine.

Availability
Wild-crafted.