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Habit : | Small trees up to 8 m tall. |
Trunk & Bark : | Bark greyish, smooth; blaze reddish. |
Branches and branchlets : | Branchlets terete, lenticellate, glabrous. |
Leaves : | Leaves simple, alternate, distichous; stipules caducous and leaving scar; petioles ca. 0.3 cm long, planoconvex, glabrous; lamina 4.5-8 x1.2-1.8 cm, narrow elliptic, elliptic-lanceolate, apex gradually acute, base acute, margin serrate, shining above, subcoriaceous, glabrous beneath; midrib raised above; secondary_nerves ca. 12 pairs; tertiary_nerves slender, reticulo-percurrent. |
Inflorescence / Flower : | Inflorescence solitary or in racemes of 2-3 flowers, axillary or lateral; pedicels up to 2.5 cm long. |
Fruit and Seed : | Drupe, 5-7 distinct drupes seated on the enlarged disk; seeds 1 drupe, erect, oblong. |