Botanical descriptions Ecology Distribution Literature
Botanical descriptions :
| Habit : | Trees up to 5 m tall. |
| Trunk\bark : | Bark brownish, with corky lenticels; blaze reddish with white streaks. |
| Branchlets : | Young branchlets terete, grey pubescent. |
| Leaves : | Leaves simple, alternate, distichous; stipules lateral, pubescent, caducous and leaving scar; petiole up to 0.5-1 (4.5) cm long, canaliculate above, pubescent; lamina 3.5-7.5 x 2.5-5 cm, ovate to lanceolate, apex acuminate, base asymmetric and subcordate, margin serrate, scabrid, canescent beneath; 3-5-nerved at base; midrib canaliculate above; secondary_nerves ca. 4 pairs; tertiary_nerves distantly horizontally percurrent. |
| Flowers : | Flowers unisexual, dioecious, in axillary fascicles or cymes; sessile. |
| Fruit& seed : | Drupe, globose, 0.4 cm long, black when ripe; seed one. |