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Habit : | Small trees up to 5 m tall. |
Branches and branchlets : | Branchlets subterete, glabrous. |
Leaves : | Leaves simple, alternate, distichous; stipules caducous and leaving scar; petioles 0.2-0.6 cm long, planoconvex, glabrous; lamina 5-15 x 1.5-4.5 cm, narrow elliptic to elliptic-oblong, apex acute to acuminate with mucronate tip, base acute to attenuate, margin serrate, shining above, glabrous beneath; midrib raised above; secondary_nerves many anastomizing with double intramarginal nerves; tertiary_nerves closely reticulate. |
Inflorescence / Flower : | Inflorescence terminal and axillary cymes; flowers many; pedicels up to 1 cm long. |
Fruit and Seed : | Drupe, fleshy, 5 or fewer drupes seated on the enlarged disk, purple; seeds 1 drupe. |