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Habit : | Small trees up to 4 m tall. |
Trunk & Bark : | Bark reddish brown, lenticellate; blaze brownish. |
Branches and branchlets : | Young branchlets subterete, grey pubescent, lenticellate. |
Leaves : | Leaves simple, alternate, spiral; petiole 2-3 cm long, canaliculate, pubescent when young; lamina 9-15 x 4.5-7.5 cm, elliptic-ovate or ovate -lanceolate, apex acuminate, base acute to rounded or slightly attenuate, margin coarsely serrate to dentate, pilose beneath; midrib raised above; secondary_nerves 8-13 pairs; tertiary_nerves broadly reticulate to obscure. |
Inflorescence / Flower : | Inflorescence axillary panicled racemes; flowers polygamous, white. |
Fruit and Seed : | Berry globose, whitish-pink when ripe; seeds numerous, angular. |