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Botanical descriptions Ecology Distribution Literature
Habit : | Small trees up to 10 m tall. |
Trunk\bark : | Bark brown, irregularly scaly; blaze pinkish. |
Branchlets : | Young branchlets terete, fulvous pubescent when young, later glabrous. |
Exudates : | Latex milky white, profuse. |
Leaves : | Leaves simple, alternate, spiral, clustered at twig ends; petiole 0.5-0.7 cm, planoconvex in cross section, glabrous; lamina 4-7.5 x 2-3.2 cm, obovate, apex obtuse and emarginate, base cuneate, margin entire and revolute, coriaceous; midrib raised above; . |
Flowers : | Flowers cream, sessile, in axillary clusters or from the leafless nodes. |
Fruit& seed : | Berry, elliptic to 0.8 cm long; seed one. |