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Habit : | Trees up to 12 m tall. |
Branches and Branchlets : | Young branches terete, sparse adpressed hairy. |
Leaves : | Leaves simple, alternate, distichous; petiole 0.5-1.0 cm long, canaliculate, glabrous; lamina 5-13 x 1.5-5 cm, usually narrow obovate, apex obtuse to rounded, base acute to cuneate, margin entire, coriaceous, glabrous, midrib canaliculate above; stout beneath; secondary_nerves 6-9 pairs; tertiary_nerves broadly reticulate. |
Inflorescence / Flower : | Flowers unisexual, dioecious; male flowers in axillary clusters usually on older branches, yellow; female flowers solitary or in clusters of 2-6, in leaf axils or on older branches. |
Fruit and Seed : | Berry, subsessile, globose, to 2 cm across; fruiting_calyx reflexed; seed 1. |