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Botanical descriptions Ecology Distribution Literature
Habit : | Large shrubs to small trees. |
Trunk\bark : | Bark brownish, smooth; blaze cream. |
Branchlets : | Young branchlets angular, glabrous. |
Leaves : | Leaves simple, opposite, decussate, clustered at twig ends; stipule laciniate, interpetiolar, basally connate, caducous and leaving scar, glabrous; petiole ca. 0.2 cm long, planoconvex in cross section, glabrous; lamina 1.2-3 x 0.2-0.7 cm, ovate -lanceolate, apex acute with blunt tip, base acute to truncate, margin entire and revolute, coriaceous, glabrous beneath; midrib slightly canaliculate above; secondary_nerves 4 pairs, not prominent; tertiary_nerves obscure. |
Flowers : | Inflorescence compact cymes, terminal; flowers subsessile, lilac outside and white within. |
Fruit& seed : | Capsule, obovate, glabrous with crown of persistent calyx lobes; seeds 2. |