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Habit : | Small trees up to 8 m tall. |
Trunk & Bark : | Bark greyish, smooth; blaze pinkish. |
Branches and branchlets : | Branchlets terete, lenticellate, glabrous. |
Leaves : | Leaves simple, alternate, distichous; stipules caducous and leaving scar; petioles ca. 0.4 cm long, planoconvex, glabrous; lamina 16 x 5 cm, elliptic or elliptic-oblong to obovate, apex acute to rounded, base acute to rounded, margin serrate, shining above, chartaceous, glabrous beneath; midrib raised above; secondary_nerves ca. 12 pairs, ascending towards apex; tertiary_nerves slender, reticulo-percurrent. |
Inflorescence / Flower : | Inflorescence axillary or lateral racemes; flowers yellow; pedicels up to 2.5 cm long. |
Fruit and Seed : | Drupe, 3-5 distinct drupes seated on the enlarged disk; seeds 1 drupe. |