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Botanical descriptions Ecology Distribution Literature
| Habit : | Trees up to 10 m tall. |
| Trunk\bark : | Bark thin, smooth, light brown; blaze white. |
| Branchlets : | Branchlets terete, glabrous or slightly pubescent . |
| Leaves : | Leaves simple, alternate, spiral; petiole 0.7-1.1 cm long, canaliculate, glabrous; lamina 6-13 x 2.5-6 cm, elliptic, elliptic - ovate, apex acuminate with blunt tip, base acute, margin crenate, shining above, drying green, coriaceous, glabrous; midrib canaliculate above; secondary nerves 4-8, gradually curved, ascending; tertiary_nerves broadly reticulo-percurrent. |
| Flowers : | Inflorescence axillary racemes; flowers sessile. |
| Fruit& seed : | Drupe cylindric or ellipsoid, to 2.5 x 1.2 cm, seeds with 5-6 deep furrows. |