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Botanical descriptions Ecology Distribution Literature
Habit : | Trees up to 30 m tall. |
Trunk\bark : | Bark dark grey, with longitudinally arranged corky lenticels; blaze cream. |
Branchlets : | Young branchlets terete, rusty tomentose, later glabrous. |
Exudates : | Latex white, profuse. |
Leaves : | Leaves simple, alternate, distichous; petiole 0.5-0.8 cm long, canaliculate, pubescent when young, later glabrous; lamina 7-15 x 2-4 cm, narrow oblong to elliptic-oblong, apex caudate-acuminate with blunt tip, base slightly asymmetric and attenuate, margi. |
Flowers : | Inflorescence axillary dense clusters; flowers white; pedicel 0.3-0.5 cm long. |
Fruit& seed : | Berry, globose 2.5-3.5 cm across, 5-6 locular; seed 1, brown, shining, to 1.9 cm long. |