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Botanical descriptions Ecology Distribution Literature
Habit : | Small trees up to 15 m tall. |
Trunk\bark : | Bark grey, irregularly scaly when mature; blaze pinkish. |
Branchlets : | Young branchlets reddish, terete, glabrous. |
Leaves : | Leaves simple, alternate, spiral, clustered at twig ends; petiole 0.5-1.5 cm long, reddish, canaliculate, glabrous; lamina 4-10 x 1.2-3.5 cm, elliptic to elliptic-obovate, apex acute or obtuse and sometimes with retuse tip, base decurrent or attenuate, margin entire and revolute, glabrous, coriaceous, dark green and shining above, pale beneath; midrib slightly canaliculate above; secondary_nerves and tertiary_nerves obscure. |
Flowers : | Flowers unisexual, yellow, axillary or extra axillary, solitary; pedicel 3 cm long. |
Fruit& seed : | Berry, ovoid or globose, reddish when ripe; seeds 4-6. |