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Habit : | Trees up to 12 m tall. |
Trunk & Bark : | Bark greyish, scaly; blaze reddish. |
Branches and Branchlets : | Branchlets slender, terete, glabrous. |
Leaves : | Leaves simple, alternate, distichous; petiole 0.4-0.9 cm long, glabrous, canaliculate above; lamina 4-12 x 1-2.7 cm, lanceolate, apex acute or acuminate with blunt tip, base acute to attenuate, margin entire, subcoriaceous, glabrous; midrib flat above, secondary_nerves ca. 8 pairs, branched, ascending towards apex; tertiary_nerves distinctly reticulate. |
Inflorescence / Flower : | Flowers unisexual; male flowers in axillary cymes, pedunculate; female large, solitary, axillary. |
Fruit and Seed : | Berry, globose, to 2.5 cm across with fruiting_calyx_lobes accrescent, foliaceous; 4 seeded. |