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Botanical descriptions Ecology Distribution Literature
Habit : | Large shrubs or small trees up to 4 m tall. |
Trunk\bark : | Bark brown, smooth. |
Branchlets : | Branchlets subterete to compressed, glabrous. |
Leaves : | Leaves simple, opposite, decussate; stipule broadly triangular, interpetiolar, persistent; petiole to 0.6 cm long, planoconvex in cross section, glabrous; lamina 5.5-11.5 x 2.5-4.5 cm, elliptic to elliptic-ovate, apex acuminate with apiculate tip, base cuneate to obtuse, margin wavy, subcoriaceous, glabrous beneath; midrib slightly canaliculate above; secondary_nerves 6-8 pairs; tertiary_nerves horizontally reticulo-percurrent. |
Flowers : | Inflorescence axillary cymes; flowers white; pedicel 0.6 cm long. |
Fruit& seed : | Drupe, globose, surmounted with persistent calyx lobes; seeds 4. |