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Habit : | Small trees, up to 10 m tall. |
Trunk & Bark : | Bark brown, tubercled; blaze light orange yellow. |
Branches and Branchlets : | Branchlets terete with short internodes; terminal young branchlets densely fulvous hirsute. |
Leaves : | Leaves simple, alternate, distichous; petiole to 0.5 cm long, terete, rufous hairy when young; lamina 2.2-8 x 1-2.5 cm, narrow-elliptic, apex bluntly acute to obtuse, base acute, margin thick and distinctly undulate, coriaceous, hairy when young, otherwise glabrous above; secondary_nerves ca. 7 pairs, branched; tertiary_nerves distinctly reticulate. |
Inflorescence / Flower : | Flowers dioecious; male flowers 3 in axillary clusters; female flowers solitary, axillary, corolla white. |
Fruit and Seed : | Berry, ellipsoid, to 1 cm long; fruiting_calyx_lobes 3, slightly enlarged; 1-3 seeded. |