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Habit : | Small trees up to 5 m tall. |
Branches and branchlets : | Branchlets slender, terete, glabrous, lenticellate. |
Leaves : | Leaves simple, alternate, spiral, usually crowded at apex; petiole 0.5-1.2 cm long, canaliculate, glabrous; lamina 2.5-10 x 1.3-5 cm, elliptic or obovate, apex acute or subacuminate, sometimes obtuse, base acute, margin entire to crenulate; chartaceous or thinly coriaceous, glabrous; midrib canaliculate; secondary_nerves 5-8 pairs thin, branched; tertiary_nerves finely reticulate, sometimes obscure. |
Inflorescence / Flower : | Inflorescence few flowered racemes; flowers yellow; pedicel up to 1 cm long. |
Fruit and Seed : | Capsule, obliquely 2-valved, ca. 1 cm across; pedicel filiform; seeds 4-8. |