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Botanical descriptions Ecology Distribution Literature
Habit : | Small trees ca. 10 m tall. |
Trunk\bark : | Bark dark brown, irregularly scaly; blaze pinkish. |
Branchlets : | Branchlets terete, tomentose when young, later glabrous. |
Exudates : | Latex milky white, profuse. |
Leaves : | Leaves simple, alternate, spiral; stipules in pairs, lateral, caducous and leaving scar; petiole 0.6-2 cm long, planoconvex in cross section, glabrous; lamina 7-25 x 2.5-6.5 cm, usually oblanceolate to narrow obovate, sometimes narrow oblong, apex rounded or obtuse, base cuneate, margin entire and revolute, coriaceous, shining above; midrib raised above; secondary_nerves 15-25 pairs, nearly parallel; tertiary_nerves broadly reticulate. |
Flowers : | Flowers yellowish-white, in axillary fascicles; pedicels ca. 0.8 cm long. |
Fruit& seed : | Berry, fleshy, ellipsoid, beaked; seed one, brown. |