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Botanical descriptions Habitat and ecology Distribution
Diagnostic characters : | Small evergreen trees, young twigs grey hairy. Flowers unisexual on separate trees, pale yellow, in axillary glomerule. |
Habit : | Small evergreen tree up to 10 m high. Branches ascending to main trunk. |
Trunk & bark : | Trunk straight. Bark smooth, lenticellate, greyish-green, outer bark thin, inner bark yellowish white, softwood whitish. . |
Branches and branchlets or twigs : | Twigs thin, terete, covered by short greyish hairs when young, becoming glabrous. . |
Exudates : | Exudate absent. |
Leaves : | Leaves simple alternate distichous, 7-14 by 3 -4.5 cm, ovate-lanceolate, apex acuminate, base acute to attenuate, slightly asymmetric, margin entire, dentate at least the upper half or slightly undulate, blade glabrous on both sides except along the midrib below. Midrib slightly raised above, primary vein single, secondary veins oblique to the midrib, widely parallel, anastomosing near margin, tertiary veins oblique. Petiole pubescent. Stipule present. |
Inflorescences or flowers : | Inflorescence in axillary glomerule, flowers pale yellow. |
Fruits : | Drupe, 4-7 by 5-8 mm, greenish turning orangish-yellow. . |
Seeds : | Seeds 2 to 3. |