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Habit : | Large shrubs or small trees up to 5 m tall. |
Trunk\bark : | Bark brown, smooth. |
Branchlets : | Branches horizontal; branchlets subterete to compressed, hirsute. |
Leaves : | Leaves simple, opposite, decussate; stipule triangular, interpetiolar, caducous and leaving scar; petiole 0.2-0.5 cm long, planoconvex in cross section, hirsute; lamina 5.5-17 x 2-4 cm, narrow elliptic to oblong or oblanceolate, apex sharply caudate-acuminate, base acute to rounded, margin entire and ciliate, hirsute beneath; midrib canaliculate above; secondary_nerves 7-8 pairs; tertiary_nerves horizontally closely percurrent. |
Flowers : | Inflorescence cymes, axillary; flowers sessile, white. |
Fruit& seed : | Drupe, globose, surmounted with persistent calyx lobes; seeds 4. |