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Habit : | Small trees, up to 10 m tall. |
Trunk & Bark : | Bark reddish brown, lenticellate; blaze pink. |
Branches and branchlets : | Branchlets terete, lenticellate, glabrous. |
Leaves : | Leaves simple, alternate, spiral, crowded at twig apex; stipule subulate, lateral, caducous and leaving scar; petiole 1.5-3.5 cm long, canaliculate above, glabrous; lamina 7-15.5 x 3.5-7.5 cm, elliptic to obovate, apex acuminate, often acumen twisted, base acute to rounded, margin entire, coriaceous, glabrous; midrib canaliculate above; secondary_nerves 7-11 pairs; tertiary_nerves broadly reticulate. |
Inflorescence / Flower : | Inflorescence terminal corymbose; flowers subsessile, white. |
Fruit and Seed : | Drupe, globose, reddish-purple; seeds 2, compressed. |