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Habit : | Large shrubs or small trees, to 6 m tall. |
Trunk & Bark : | Bark shallowly reticulately fissured; blaze white. |
Branches and branchlets : | Young branchlets subterete, sparingly hairy, glabrous when mature. |
Leaves : | Leaves simple, alternate, spiral; petiole 0.7 cm long, canaliculate, glabrous; lamina 3.3-10.3 x 1.7-3.5 cm, elliptic-oblanceolate, apex acuminate with blunt tip, base acute-cuneate, margin entire, chartaceous, shining above, glabrous; midrib raised above; triplinerved; tertiary_nerves broadly reticulate. |
Inflorescence / Flower : | Inflorescence axillary panicles; flowers unisexual; male flowers yellow; female flowers greenish yellow. |
Fruit and Seed : | Drupes, compressed, ca. 0.6 cm across, glabrous, depressed at either ends; seed 1. |