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Habit : | Trees up to 10 m tall. |
Trunk & Bark : | Bark brown, rough. |
Branches and Branchlets : | Branchlets quadrangular with short internodes, glabrous. |
Exudates : | Latex yellow. |
Leaves : | Leaves simple, opposite, decussate; petiole 0.5-0.8 cm long, rugose, canaliculate, decurrent, slightly sheathing at base; lamina 7.5-14 × 1-3 cm, linear lanceolate, sometimes subfalcate, apex gradually acuminate, base attenuate, chartaceous; secondary_nerves ca. 10 pairs, tertiary_nerves reticulo-percurrent. |
Inflorescence / Flower : | Flowers dioecious; male flowers in axillary, sessile fascicles; female flower solitary, axillary, sessile. |
Fruit and Seed : | Berry globose or subglobose, 2 cm across. |