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Botanical descriptions Ecology Distribution Literature
Habit : | Shrubs or small trees up to 4 m tall. |
Trunk\bark : | Bark yellowish, smooth; blaze whitish. |
Branchlets : | Branches with long spines; branchlets terete, glabrous. |
Leaves : | Leaves simple, alternate, spiral; petiole 0.5-1 cm long, planoconvex in cross section, glabrous, articulate; lamina 7.5-13 x 3-6 cm, elliptic-ovate to elliptic-lanceolate, apex narrowly acute to acuminate with retuse tip, base acute, margin entire, coriaceous, glabrous, glandular punctate, pale beneath, drying olive green; midrib raised above; secondary_nerves 10-18 pairs; tertiary_nerves admedially ramified. |
Flowers : | Inflorescence axillary short cymes; flowers white; pedicel 0.4 cm long; stamens free. |
Fruit& seed : | Berry, ovoid and apiculate, to 1.9 cm long; seeds 4. |