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Habit : | Medium sized trees, up to 30 m tall. |
Trunk & Bark : | Bark lenticelled; blaze cream. |
Branches and Branchlets : | Branches and branchlets drooping. |
Leaves : | Leaves simple, alternate, distichous; petiole 0.5-1.1 cm long, canaliculate, subglabrous; lamina 13-25 x 4-7.5 cm, oblong-lanceolate, apex caudate-acuminate, base acute, margin entire, glabrous, subcoriaceous; midrib raised above; secondary_nerves 10-12 pairs; tertiary_nerves reticulo-percurrent. |
Inflorescence / Flower : | Flower in terminal or axillary fascicles of 1 to 3 together, pale green. |
Fruit and Seed : | Berry, globose or oblong, about 7 cm long, seeds 8-10 in rows, compressed. |