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Habit : | Trees up to 35 m tall. |
Trunk & Bark : | Bark greyish brown, smooth; blaze reddish. |
Branches and Branchlets : | Branchlets slender, terete, glabrous except the flush with adpressed hairs. |
Leaves : | Leaves simple, alternate, distichous; petiole 0.3-1.2 cm long, glabrous, flat above; lamina 6-15 x 3-6 cm, elliptic to narrow elliptic, apex acuminate and twisted, base acute or slightly attenuate, margin revolute when dry, chartaceous or subcoriaceous, glabrous, drying black; midrib flat or slightly impressed above; secondary_nerves 7-9 pairs, slender; tertiary_nerves broadly reticulo-percurrent. |
Inflorescence / Flower : | Flowers dioecious or polygamous; male flowers greenish, in dichasial cyme; female flowers solitary or 3 flowered cyme. |
Fruit and Seed : | Berry, globose, to 2 cm across, glabrous; fruiting_calyx reflexed; seeds 2-8. |