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Botanical descriptions Ecology Distribution Literature
| Habit : | Small trees up to 15 m tall. |
| Trunk\bark : | Bark corky, deeply fissured, blaze yellowish-brown. |
| Branchlets : | Young branchlets slender, quadrangular, glabrous. |
| Leaves : | Leaves simple, opposite, decussate, sometimes appears to be in clusters of 2 on stout arrested branchlets; stipules linear - subulate with broad base, to 0.4 cm long; petiole slender, 0.7-1.9 cm long, planoconvex in cross section, glabrous; lamina 2-5 x 1.4-2.9 cm, elliptic or ovate, apex acuminate with blunt tip, base acute to attenuate, margin entire, chartaceous, glabrous; midrib flat above or thinly raised; secondary_nerves 4-6 pairs, slender, hairy domatia at axils; tertiary_nerves reticulate, sometimes obscure. |
| Flowers : | Flowers in axillary cymes, white; pedicel slender. |
| Fruit& seed : | Drupe, ellipsoid 0.5 cm long. |