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Habit : | Large shrub or small trees up to 5 m tall. |
Trunk\bark : | Bark grey, scaly; blaze pale brown. |
Branchlets : | Branches horizontal and dichotomous; branchlets angular, terete when mature, glabrous. |
Leaves : | Leaves simple, opposite, decussate; stipules ovate, interpetiolar, caducous and leaving scar; petioles ca. 0.5 cm long, planoconvex in cross section, glabrous; lamina 8.5-16 x 3-6 cm, elliptic-lanceolate, apex caudate-acuminate, base acute, margin entire, chartaceous, glabrous; midrib raised above; secondary_nerves ca. 8 pairs; tertiary_nerves broadly reticulate. |
Flowers : | Inflorescence axillary or supra-axillary, pedunculate corymbs; flowers white; pedicel slender, 0.3 cm long. |
Fruit& seed : | Berry; seed one. . |