It grows as a shrub or small tree up to 15 metres (50 ft) tall, with a trunk diameter of up to 30 centimetres (12 in) and has white sap.

[3] Flowers are fragrant with white, somewhat twisted lobes, often with a pale yellow center and are set in small clusters at the ends of branches.

The fruit is dark green, set in spreading pairs of ellipsoids or oval, beaked pods, up to 10 centimetres (4 in) in diameter.

Its habitat is forests from sea level to 1,850 metres (6,000 ft) altitude.

[3] Local medicinal uses include the treatment of wounds, fever and hypertension.