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Habit : | Trees up to 12 m tall. |
Trunk & Bark : | Bark black, smooth. |
Branches and Branchlets : | Branchlets terete, glabrous. |
Leaves : | Leaves simple, alternate, distichous; petiole 0.3-0.8 cm long, glabrous, subterete; lamina 5-13.5 x 1.5-4.5 cm, elliptic or oblong, apex acuminate with blunt tip or obtuse, base acute to rounded, margin entire, midrib flat; secondary_nerves 5-8 pairs, lower most pairs close and acute in angle; tertiary_nerves reticulate. |
Inflorescence / Flower : | Flowers unisexual; male flowers subsessile, in 3-flowered, axillary cymes, cream; female flowers subsessile, axillary, solitary, pedicels 0.2 cm long. |
Fruit and Seed : | Berry, globose or subglobose, to 2 cm across, apiculate, with fruiting_calyx_lobes accrescent, reflexed; usually 4 seeded, rarely 2-8. |