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Botanical descriptions Ecology Distribution Status: Literatures
Habit : | Small trees up to 8 m tall. |
Trunk & Bark : | Bark brownish, lenticellate; blaze whitish. |
Branches and branchlets : | Branchlets slender, terete, minutely pubescent. |
Leaves : | Leaves simple, alternate, spiral, usually crowded at apex; petiole 0.5-1.5 cm long, planoconvex in cross section, pubescent; lamina 7-12.8 x 3-4.3 cm, elliptic to elliptic-oblanceolate, apex acuminate, base cuneate to decurrent, margin entire, pubescent, glabrous when mature, chartaceous, midrib flat above; secondary_nerves ca 8 pairs; tertiary_nerves closely reticulate. |
Inflorescence / Flower : | Inflorescence terminal, umbels of short racemes. |
Fruit and Seed : | Capsule, loculicidal, 2-valved, 1 cm long, pubescent, drying black; seeds 4, orange to reddish. |