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Botanical descriptions Ecology Distribution Literature
Habit : | Large shrubs or small trees ca. 4 m tall. |
Branchlets : | Branchlets quadrangular, fulvous tomentose. |
Leaves : | Leaves simple, opposite, decussate; petiole 2.5-8 cm long , terete, fulvous tomentose; lamina 7-17 (-23) x 7.5- 15 cm, broad elliptic-ovate or suborbicular, apex acuminate, base cordate, margin entire or dentate, subcoriaceous, fulvous tomentose; midrib raised with tomentose above; 5-7-nerved at base; secondary_nerves ca. 2-3 pairs; tertiary_nerves distantly and horizontally percurrent. |
Flowers : | Inflorescence terminal panicle, up to 18 cm long, fulvous pubescent; flowers zygomorphic, white. |
Fruit& seed : | Drupe, black, nearly globose seated on enlarged pinkish accrescent calyx. |