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Habit : | Trees up to 8 m tall. |
Trunk & Bark : | Trunk with branched and simple thorns; bark brownish, smooth; blaze cream. |
Branches and Branchlets : | Young branchlets terete, fulvous hirsute. |
Leaves : | Leaves simple, alternate, distichous; petiole 0.4-0.9 cm long, planoconvex in cross section, pubescent; lamina 7-18 x 4-8 cm, narrow elliptic-oblong, apex acuminate, base acute, margin crenate, coriaceous, pubescent on midrib beneath, sometimes on nerves also, drying brown, coriaceous; midrib flat or slightly raised above; 3-5_nerved_at_base; secondary_nerves 4-9 pairs; tertiary_nerves reticulo-percurrent. |
Inflorescence / Flower : | Flowers unisexual, dioecious in axillary cymes. |
Fruit and Seed : | Berry, red when ripe, globose, fleshy; 1-seeded. |