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Habit : | Small trees, ca.12 m tall. |
Branches and Branchlets : | Branchlets slender, terete, glabrous. |
Leaves : | Leaves simple, alternate, distichous; petiole 0.4-0.6 cm long, canaliculate, glabrous; lamina 4-10 x 2-3.8 cm, narrow ovate to elliptic-ovate, apex obtusely acute or narrowly acuminate with blunt tip, base acute to cuneate, sometimes rounded, subcoriaceous, glabrous, shining, midrib flat above; secondary_nerves 6-8 pairs, slender, moderately ascending; tertiary and higher order nerves finely reticulate. |
Inflorescence / Flower : | Flowers solitary or 2-3 in leaf opposed cymes, yellowish with pink tinge; pedicels 0.3-0.5 cm. |
Fruit and Seed : | Clustered 1-3 seeded berries, subsessile, globose or cylindric with constriction between seeds, yellow tomentose. |