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Botanical descriptions Ecology Distribution Literatures
Habit : | Large shrubs or small trees, up to 5 m tall. |
Branches and Branchlets : | Branchlets slender, terete, pubescent. |
Leaves : | Leaves simple, alternate, distichous; stipule linear-lanceolate to 0.5 cm long; petiole 0.1-0.4 cm long, pubescent; lamina 5-11.5 x 2-4 cm, elliptic, apex bluntly acuminate with mucronate tip, base acute, margin entire, chartaceous, sparsely pubescent on midrib and nerves beneath; midrib raised above; secondary_nerves 5-6 gradually curved; tertiary_nerves nearly horizontally reticulo-percurrent. |
Inflorescence / Flower : | Inflorescence axillary, fascicled cyme; flowers white. |
Fruit and Seed : | Drupe 1-2 lobed, pubescent, 2-seeded. |