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Botanical descriptions Ecology Distribution Literature
Habit : | Large shrubs or small trees up to 8 m tall. |
Trunk\bark : | Bark grey, smooth; blaze orange. |
Branchlets : | Branchlets greenish, terete, glabrous. |
Leaves : | Leaves simple, alternate, distichous; petiole 0.4-0.7 cm long, canaliculate, glabrous; lamina 5.5-15 X 2- 5.5 cm, narrow elliptic to elliptic-oblong or oblong-lanceolate, apex acuminate with blunt tip, base acute or slightly attenuate, margin entire or slightly undulate; chartaceous or subcoriaceous, glabrous; midrib slightly raised above; secondary_nerves 5-9 pairs, gradually curved; tertiary_nerves horizontally reticulo-percurrent. |
Flowers : | Inflorescence terminal or axillary panicles, tomentose; flowers white-yellowish; pedicel up to 0.5 cm long. |
Fruit& seed : | Drupes, 1-celled, globose, rugose, dark green, 2.2 cm across; seed one. |