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Botanical descriptions Habitat and ecology Distribution
Diagnostic characters : | Presence of tiny vertical pustules on the bark. Leaves thickened on margin, withering red, with long and reddish petiole. Presence of two red kidney shaped glands at its junction with the lamina. |
Habit : | Small deciduous tree up to 25 m tall. Branches ascending to main trunk. |
Trunk & bark : | Trunk straight. Bark smooth grey-black with tiny vertical pustules, lenticellate, underbark green, innerbark cream. |
Branches and branchlets or twigs : | Branches terete, glabrous, dark red when young. |
Exudates : | White sap. |
Leaves : | Leaves simple, alternate and spiral, 4-11 by 2.5-4 cm, ovate to elliptic, apex acuminate, base attenuate, margin entire and thickened, pinkish when young, withering red, glaucous below and glabrous on both sides. Midrib flat above, primary vein single, secondary veins 8-12, oblique to the midrib, widely parallel, tertiary veins finely reticulate. Petiole long, reddish-brown, with two glands at the junction with lamina. Stipule present. |
Inflorescences or flowers : | Flowers unisexual on the same plant, yellow, grouped in clusters of spikes terminal, at the end of the branches. Male flowers at the base, female flowers above. |
Fruits : | Fruit is a capsule, 0.7- 0.9 cm, rounded, dark brown when ripe. . |
Seeds : | Seeds 3, blue-green. |