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Botanical descriptions Ecology Distribution Status: Literatures
Habit : | Small trees up to 7 m tall. |
Trunk & Bark : | Bark greyish, lenticellate; blaze cream. |
Branches and branchlets : | Young branchlets terete, glabrous, lenticellate, with scars of fallen leaves. |
Leaves : | Leaves simple, alternate, spiral, clustered at twig ends; petiole 0.5-0.7 cm long, planoconvex in cross section, glabrous; lamina 5-12 x 1-4.5 cm, obovate, apex rounded or retuse, base attenuate, margin entire, transparent gland dotted and in lines, glabrous, coriaceous; midrib flat above; secondary_nerves ca. 14 pairs, not prominent; tertiary_nerves obscure. |
Inflorescence / Flower : | Inflorescence umbels, sessile, axillary or on old branchlets; flowers bisexual; pedicel 1.5 cm long. |
Fruit and Seed : | Berry, globose, purple; seed one. |