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Botanical descriptions Ecology Distribution Literature
Habit : | Deciduous trees, up to m tall. |
Trunk\bark : | Bark brownish grey, smooth; blaze greenish. |
Branchlets : | Young branchlets angular to subterete, glabrous. |
Leaves : | Leaves simple, alternate, distichous; stipule lateral, persistent; petiole ca. 0.1 cm long, glabrous; lamina 1-1.5 x 0.3-0.5 cm, oblong, apex obtuse with mucronate tip, base asymmetric and truncate, margin thick and revolute, coriaceous, glaucous beneath, glabrous; midrib flat above; secondary_nerves 6-8 pairs; tertiary_nerves brodly reticulate or obscure. |
Flowers : | Inflorescence axillary cymes or solitary; flowers unisexual, whitish. |
Fruit& seed : | Capsule, smooth, trilocular, obovoid, purplish black; seeds 6. |