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Habit : | Trees up to 30 m tall. |
Trunk & Bark : | Bark black, often flaky. |
Branches and Branchlets : | Young branchlets terete, densely covered by long hairs; young trees with verticillate branches. |
Leaves : | Leaves simple, alternate, distichous; petiole 0.1 cm, subsessile; lamina to 2-4 x 1-1.5 cm, elliptic or elliptic-ovate, acute at both ends, chartaceous, yellowish silky hairy throughout when young, glabrous when mature, drying dark brown above pale brown beneath; midrib canaliculate above; secondary_nerves 3-5 pairs, not prominent; tertiary_nerves obscure. |
Inflorescence / Flower : | Flowers unisexual, dioecious; male flowers 1-4 together in small subsessile axillary cyme; female flowers solitary, axillary, subsessile. |
Fruit and Seed : | Berry, oblong, to 1.4 cm long with persistent_calyx, 1 or 2-seeded. |