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Habit : | Evergreen trees, up to 20 m tall. |
Trunk & Bark : | Bark smooth, grey, lenticellate; blaze cream. |
Branches and Branchlets : | Branchlets terete, glabrous, sometimes with purple tinge. |
Leaves : | Leaves simple, alternate, spiral; petioles 0.7 cm long, canaliculate; lamina 3-6.5 x 1-3 cm, elliptic sometimes obovate, apex acuminate, base acute, margin entire, glabrous, coriaceous; midrib canaliculate; secondary_nerves 6 pairs; tertiary_nerves obscure. |
Inflorescence / Flower : | Flowers unisexual, dioecious; male flowers white, in short pedunculate cymes, peduncles 0.8-1.25 cm long; female flowers in axillary fascicles. |
Fruit and Seed : | Drupe, globose, red, apiculate; locule 6, each 1-seeded. |