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Habit : | Trees up to 5 m tall. |
Trunk & Bark : | Bark brownish, smooth. |
Branches and branchlets : | Young branchlets subterete, glabrous. |
Leaves : | Leaves simple, opposite, decussate; petiole 0.5-0.7 cm long, canaliculate above, glabrous; lamina 4-8.5 x 0.6-1.4 cm, linear-lanceolate, apex gradully acute to acuminate, base acute to attenuate, margin entire, pellucid gland dotted, glabrous beneath, coriaceous; midrib slightly canaliculate; secondary_nerves many, oblique; intramarginal nerve present; tertiary_nerves admedially ramified. |
Inflorescence / Flower : | Inflorescence axillary and terminal cymes; flowers small, white; calyx tube funnel shaped, ca. 0.5 cm long; pedicel ca. 0.2 cm long, slender. |
Fruit and Seed : | Berry, crowned with calyx segments; seed one. |