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Habit : | Trees up to 5 m tall. |
Branches and Branchlets : | Branchlets subterete, glabrous. |
Exudates : | Whitish sap from the cut end of leaves and twigs. |
Leaves : | Leaves simple, alternate or subopposite, sometimes spiral; petiole 0.2-0.3 cm long, lamina 4-9.5 x1.6-4.2 cm, elliptic-rhomboid, apex acute with obtuse or retuse tip, base acute, margin entire, glabrous; secondary_nerves ca. 9 pairs; tertiary_nerves admedially_ramified. |
Inflorescence / Flower : | Flowers greenish yellow, unisexual, monoecious; male flowers in slender racemes; female flowers solitary, axillary or fascicled. |
Fruit and Seed : | Capsule, shallow lobed, ca. 1 cm long; fruiting_calyx_lobes spreading; seeds 3. |