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Botanical descriptions Ecology Distribution Literature
| Habit : | Large shrubs or small trees up to 5 m tall. |
| Trunk\bark : | Bark greyish brown, fissured. |
| Branchlets : | Young branchlets angular to subterete, scurfy puberulous. |
| Exudates : | . |
| Leaves : | Leaves simple, alternate, spiral, clustered at twig ends; petiole ca. 0.2 cm long, stout, swollen at base, planoconvex in cross section; lamina 2.5-6.5 x 0.5-1.2 cm, narrow elliptic to oblanceolate, apex acuminate to acute with apiculate tip, base decurrent, margin entire and revolute, shining above, glabrous, viscid; midrib raised above; secondary nerves ca. 16 pairs, nearly parallel; tertiary nerves closely reticulate. |
| Flowers : | Inflorescence panicled cymes, up to 7 cm long, terminal or axillary; flowers small, polygamous; pedicel up to 0.5 cm long. |
| Fruit& seed : | Capsule, membranous, compressed, with 3 wings; seeds 1-2, black. |