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Botanical descriptions Ecology Distribution Literature
Habit : | Large shrubs or small trees ca. 5 m tall. |
Branchlets : | Young branchlets subterete to compressed, glabrous. |
Leaves : | Leaves simple, opposite, decussate; stipules intrapetiolar, ovate -lanceolate, sheathing; petiole 0.8-3 cm, planoconvex in cross section, glabrous; lamina 10-25 x 4.5-10 cm, obovate to wide obovate, sometimes elliptic, apex abruptly and shortly acuminate, base cuneate - decurrent, margin revolute, chartaceous or thinly coriaceous, glabrous beneath; midrib and secondary_nerves raised above; secondary_nerves 13-18 pairs, parallel, gradually curved, domatia present at the axils; tertiary_nerves closely and obliquely percurrent. |
Flowers : | Inflorescence terminal with branches terminating in cymes; flowers white, sessile. |
Fruit& seed : | Drupe, ovoid, with two planoconvex pyrenes; seeds 1 per pyrene. |