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Botanical descriptions Ecology Distribution Status: Literatures
Habit : | Small trees up to 7 m tall. |
Trunk & Bark : | Bark greyish, irregularly large flaky. |
Branches and branchlets : | Young branchlets terete, minutely fulvous pubescent. |
Leaves : | Leaves simple, opposite, decussate; petiole 0.8-1.2 cm long, canaliculate, pubescent when young; lamina 3.5-7.5 (-10) x 1-3 cm, obovate - oblanceolate, sometimes elliptic, apex obtuse, base cuneate or attenuate, margin revolute, coriaceous, minutely fulvous pubescent when young and later glabrous, pellucid gland dotted; midrib canaliculate; secondary_nerves not prominent, 6-10 pairs; intramarginal nerve present; tertiary_nerves obscure. |
Inflorescence / Flower : | Flowers white, in axillary pairs on short peduncle; pedicel ca. 2.5 cm long. |
Fruit and Seed : | Berry, ellipsoid or globose, crowned with calyx lobes, fulvous tomentose; seeds 1-2. |