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Habit : | Small trees up to 5 m tall. |
Trunk & Bark : | Bark brownish, smooth. |
Branches and branchlets : | Branchlets terete, glabrous, lenticellate. |
Leaves : | Leaves simple, alternate, distichous; petiole 0.3-0.4 cm long, canaliculate, glabrous; lamina 6-8 x 3-4, elliptic to ovate -elliptic, apex acuminate and twisted, base acute, margin entire, glabrous beneath; midrib raised above; secondary_nerves ca. 6 pairs, domatia present at axils; tertiary_nerves broadly reticulate to obscure. |
Inflorescence / Flower : | Flowers solitary, axillary. |
Fruit and Seed : | Cluster of 1-seeded ovoid berries. |