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Habit : | Trees up to 15 m tall. |
Trunk\bark : | Trunk fluted; bark pale grey, prominently fissured. |
Branchlets : | Young branchlets quadrangular, glabrous; apical bud usually exudes yellow resin. |
Leaves : | Leaves simple, opposite, decussate; stipules narrow triangular to 0.7 cm long, glabrous; petiole 0.6-1.5 cm long, slightly canaliculate above, glabrous; lamina 5-10 x 1.5-3.5 cm, elliptic to elliptic-obovate, apex acuminate with blunt tip, base attenuate, margin entire, chartaceous, glabrous beneath, hairy domatia present at axils of secondary_nerves; midrib raised above; secondary_nerves 5-6 pairs; tertiary_nerves horizontally reticulo-percurrent. |
Flowers : | Inflorescence small cymes; flowers polygamodioecious, sessile. |
Fruit& seed : | Berry, ovoid or globose; seed many, irregularly compressed, slightly rugose. |