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Habit : | Trees up to 15 m tall. |
Trunk & Bark : | Bark grey, scaly; blaze cream. |
Branches and branchlets : | Branchlets stout, quadrangular and narrowly winged, glabrous. |
Leaves : | Leaves simple, opposite, decussate; petiole 0.4-1.2 cm long, canaliculate above, glabrous; lamina 6.5-12.5 x 3.3-7.5 cm, elliptic to broad elliptic or obovate, apex obtuse to rounded; base cuneate, margin entire, pellucid gland dotted, coriaceous, glabrous; midrib distinctly canaliculate above; intramarginal nerve present; secondary_nerves ca. 12 pairs; tertiary_nerves obscure. |
Inflorescence / Flower : | Flowers small in terminal corymbose cyme. |
Fruit and Seed : | Berry, globose, purple, 0.8 cm across, crowned with persistent calyx; seed one. |