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Habit : | Small trees up to 7 m tall. |
Branchlets : | Young branchlets slender, terete, glabrous. |
Leaves : | Leaves simple, opposite, decussate; stipules interpetiolar, caducous and leaving scar; petiole 0.5 cm long, planoconvex in cross section, glabrous; lamina 10 x 4.5 cm, elliptic, elliptic-oblong, apex acute to shortly acuminate with blunt tip, base attenuate, margin entire, chartaceous, hirsute on both sides when young and only beneath when mature; midrib slightly raised above; secondary_nerves 6 pairs, slender; tertiary_nerves reticulate, sometimes obscure. |
Flowers : | Inflorescence axillary umbels; flowers white; pedicels 0.4 cm. |
Fruit& seed : | Drupe, obovate to obcordate, ca. 1.3 cm long; seeds 2. |