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Habit : | Trees up to 8 m tall. |
Branches and Branchlets : | Branchlets slender, angular, minutely densely adpressed hairs. |
Leaves : | Leaves simple, opposite to subopposite; petiole 1 cm; lamina 6-11 x 1.5-4 cm, elliptic or subovate-elliptic, apex shortly acuminate with blunt tip, base cuneate to attenuate, margin entire, young leaves sericeous beneath, later glabrous, subcoriaceous; trinerved, suprabasal, laterals not reaching the leaf apex; tertiary_nerves horizontally_percurrent; higher order nerves minutely reticulate. |
Inflorescence / Flower : | Inflorescence in pseudoterminal and axillary racemes, to 5 cm long, pubescent. |
Fruit and Seed : | Berry; seed 1. |