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Habit : | Trees up to 15 m tall. |
Trunk & Bark : | Bark whitish-brown, lenticellate; blaze orange. |
Branches and branchlets : | Young branchlets subquadrangular, lenticellate, glabrous. |
Leaves : | Leaves simple, opposite, decussate; petiole 1-2 cm long, canaliculate; lamina 6-12 x 3-5.8 cm, elliptic to elliptic-obovate, apex acuminate, base attenuate, margin entire and slightly wavy, glabrous, chartaceous; midrib slightly canaliculate; secondary_nerves 4-8 pairs; hairy domatia present in the axils; tertiary_nerves reticulate. |
Inflorescence / Flower : | Inflorescence trichotomous cymes, terminal or axillary; flowers bisexual, cream-white. |
Fruit and Seed : | Drupe, ovoid, brownish-black when ripe; seed one. |