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Habit : | Small trees up to 5 m tall. |
Branches and branchlets : | Branches horizontal; young branchlets terete, densely scaly. |
Leaves : | Leaves simple, alternate, spiral; petiole 0.4-0.8 cm long, slender, glabrous when mature; lamina 2.3-6 x 1.3-2.8 cm, rhomboid or elliptic-oblanceolate, apex acute to acuminate with blunt tip, base attenuate or cuneate, margin entire or obscurely crenulate, recurved, glabrous, chartaceous; midrib slightly canaliculate above; secondary_nerves and tertiary_nerves obscure. |
Inflorescence / Flower : | Inflorescence axillary umbellate cymes; flowers pinkish-white; peduncle 1-1.5 cm long; pedicel 0.6-0.8 cm long, slender. |
Fruit and Seed : | Berry, ca. 0.6 cm across, with persistent stylar base. |