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Botanical descriptions Ecology Distribution Status: Literatures
Habit : | Small trees up to 5 m tall. |
Trunk & Bark : | Bark brownish, smooth. |
Branches and branchlets : | Young branchlets subterete to slightly quadrangular, glabrous. |
Leaves : | Leaves simple, opposite, decussate; petiole 0.2 cm long, canaliculate, glabrous; lamina 6-9.5 × 3.5-6, ovate to lanceolate, apex obtuse or shortly and broadly acuminate with blunt tip, base subcordate, margin entire, pellucid gland dotted, coriaceous, glabrous; midrib canaliculate above; secondary_nerves 8 to 11 pairs, not prominent; intramarginal nerve present; tertiary_nerves broadly reticulate, slightly visible when dry. |
Inflorescence / Flower : | Flowers in short crowded racemes, petals white. |
Fruit and Seed : | Berry, crowned with calyx lobes; seed one. |