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Botanical descriptions Ecology Distribution Literature
Habit : | Trees up to 12 m tall. |
Trunk\bark : | Bark grey, smooth, irregularly fissured and flaky when mature; blaze cream. |
Branchlets : | Young branchlets usually quadrangular, glabrous. |
Leaves : | Leaves simple, opposite, decussate; stipules interpetiolar linear with broad base, to 0.9 cm long; petiole 0.6-1 cm long, planoconvex in cross section, glabrous; lamina 6-15 x 2.5-7 cm, elliptic, apex acuminate, base cuneate, margin entire, coriaceous, shining above, glabrous beneath; midrib raised above; secondary_nerves 4-7 pairs, domatia present at axills; tertiary_nerves obscure. |
Flowers : | Inflorescence axillary cymes. |
Fruit& seed : | Drupe ovoid; pedicel 1.5 cm long. |