 Young plants and coppice regrowth have more or less sessile leaves mostly arranged in opposite pairs, glossy green, linear to narrow oblong, long and wide.Adult leaves are the same glossy light green on both sides, linear to lance-shaped or curved, long and wide on a petiole long.The flower buds are arranged in leaf axils in groups of seven on an unbranched peduncle long, the individual buds on pedicels long.