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Habit : | Large trees up to 30 m tall. |
Trunk & Bark : | Bark greenish-grey, cratered; blaze reddish. |
Branches and branchlets : | Branches horizontal; branchlets green, slender, dropping, terete, glabrous. |
Leaves : | Leaves simple, alternate distichous; petiole 0.8-2.2 cm long, canaliculate, usually upper half stouter, glabrous; lamina 8-18 x 4-6.5 cm, usually ovate to oblong-ovate, apex slightly acuminate to acute or obtuse, base rounded to slightly attenuate, margin entire, subcoriaceous, glabrous beneath; midrib slightly raised above; secondary_nerves 4-6 pairs, ascending; tertiary_nerves slender, horizontally reticulo-percurrent. |
Inflorescence / Flower : | Inflorescence axillary cymes or clusters on short tubercles; flowers subsessile, greenish-white. |
Fruit and Seed : | Drupe, club shaped when young later globose, deep purple when ripe; seed one. |