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Botanical descriptions Ecology Distribution Literatures
Habit : | Small trees, up to 8 m tall. |
Branches and Branchlets : | Branchlets terete, glabrous. |
Leaves : | Leaves simple, opposite, decussate; petiole ca. 0.7 cm long; lamina 3-9.3 x 1.6-4.7 cm, elliptic to ovate, apex obtuse, base rounded to cuneate, coriaceous, pale beneath, olive-grey when dry; secondary_nerves 6-8 pairs, slender; tertiary_nerves admedially_ramified. |
Inflorescence / Flower : | Inflorescence cymes, 4-8 cm long. |
Fruit and Seed : | Capsule, brown, apiculate, sepals persistent in fruit; 1-seeded, arillate. |