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Botanical descriptions Habitat and ecology Distribution
Diagnostic characters : | Small deciduous trees. Stipules present, small. Flowers bisexual, yellow, style attached to base of ovary. Fruits black on enlarged red receptacle surrounded by enlarged, reflexed red sepals. |
Habit : | Deciduous tree up to 10 m tall. |
Trunk & bark : | Bole straight, or often twisted, bark smooth, lenticells, pale brown. |
Branches and branchlets or twigs : | Twigs terete, glabrous. |
Exudates : | Exudate absent. |
Leaves : | Leaves simple, alternate and distichous, obovate, glabrous, apex obtuse, base rounded to acute, margin dentate. Primary nerve single, secondary veins 7-15 pairs, oblique with numerous intersecondary nerves, tertiary nerves reticulate. Stipules tiny, falling off early, intrapetiolarly united. |
Inflorescences or flowers : | Flowers yellow, arranged in a few-flowered inflorescence, axillary on leafless twigs, bisexual, pedicels longer than 0.5 cm. |
Fruits : | Fruits up to 1.1 cm, black sitting on enlarge red torus with reflexed red sepals. |
Seeds : | Seed 1. |