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Habit : | Small trees up to 10 m tall. |
Trunk & Bark : | Bark greyish, lenticellate; blaze red. |
Branches and branchlets : | Young branchlets terete, glabrous with scars of fallen leaves. |
Leaves : | Leaves simple, alternate, spiral, subverticillate; petiole 0.5-1 cm long, planoconvex in cross section, glabrous; lamina 4-8 x 1-2.3 cm, elliptic-oblanceolate, apex obtuse, base attenuate, margin entire, transparent gland dotted and in lines, glabrous, coriaceous; midrib flat above; secondary_nerves and tertiary_nerves obscure. |
Inflorescence / Flower : | Inflorescence sessile or shortly pedicelled umbels; flowers polygamous. |
Fruit and Seed : | Berry globose with persistent style; seed one. |