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Botanical descriptions Ecology Distribution Literature
Habit : | Small trees up to 7 m tall. |
Branchlets : | Young branchlets subterete, hairy when young, later glabrous. |
Leaves : | Leaves simple, alternate, spiral; petiole up to 0.5-1.4 cm long, planoconvex in cross section, glabrous when mature; lamina 4.5-10 x 2-3.5 cm, ovate -elliptic, apex caudate-acuminate with mucronate tip, base attenuate - decurrent, margin serrate and recurved, glabrous when mature, greenish when dry; midrib canaliculate above; secondary_nerves ca. 5 pairs; tertiary_nerves obscure or broadly reticulate. |
Flowers : | Inflorescence axillary racemes, up to 14 cm long, tomentose; pedicel ca. 0.5 cm long. |
Fruit& seed : | Drupe, ellipsoid or oblong, ca. 1.2 cm long; seeds 1-2. |