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Habit : | Trees up to 6 m tall. |
Trunk & Bark : | Bark grey, brownish, lenticellate. |
Branches and Branchlets : | Branches with architecture of “ Aubreville_model ”; branchlets terete, glabrous. |
Leaves : | Leaves simple, alternate, spiral, clustered at twig ends; petiole 0.5-1.2 cm, slightly canaliculate above, glabrous; lamina 8-18 x 1.7-3.8 cm, usually narrow elliptic, sometimes narrow oblanceolate, apex narrowly and gradually long acuminate, base acute to cuneate, margin entire, chartaceous, glabrous, slightly glaucous and sparsely puberulous beneath; midrib slightly canaliculate above; secondary_nerves 8-14 pairs, gradually curved and ascending; tertiary_nerves reticulo-percurrent. |
Inflorescence / Flower : | Flowers in axillary or subterminal racemes; pedicels filiform and long; anthers 2 celled. |
Fruit and Seed : | Drupaceous, globose or ovoid, seated on the persistent fruiting_perianth_lobes; seed 1. |