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Habit : | Small trees or large shrubs up to 4 m tall. |
Branches and branchlets : | Young branchlets subterete, glabrous. |
Leaves : | Leaves simple, alternate, spiral, subverticilate; petiole ca. 0.5 cm long or subsessile, canaliculate, glabrous; lamina 14-29 x 4.5-7.5 cm, oblanceolate, apex acute, base rounded to auricled, margin entire, transparent gland dotted, coriaceous, glabrous; midrib canaliculate above; secondary_nerves ca. 11-16 pairs; tertiary_nerves broadly reticulate. |
Inflorescence / Flower : | Inflorescence often compound panicle of subumbels, terminal or on lateral branches; peduncle to 25 cm long, rusty pubescent; flowers pink. |
Fruit and Seed : | Berry, globose, red; seed one. |