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Habit : | Small trees up to 10 m tall, strangler when young. |
Trunk & Bark : | Bark brownish, shallowly fissured; blaze white. |
Branches and Branchlets : | Branchlets corky, quadrangular, glabrous. |
Leaves : | Leaves simple, opposite, decussate, clustered at end of branchlets; petiole 0.5-2.5 cm long with decurrent leaf base, stipular sheathing at base; lamina 9-18x 4-8.5 cm, usually obovate, apex rounded to abruptly short acuminate, base narrow cuneate and decurrent, margin entire, fleshy, glabrous; midrib raised above; secondary_nerves obscurely visible, tertiary and higher order nerves not visible. |
Inflorescence / Flower : | Flowers large, in terminal cymes; petals yellow outside and white inside. |
Fruit and Seed : | Berry, ellipsoid to globose, apiculate, 3-5 cm wide with persistent_calyx lobes; seeds many. |