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Botanical descriptions Distribution Literature
Habit : | Small trees. |
Trunk\bark : | Bark greyish, lenticellate; blaze cream. |
Branchlets : | Young branchlets terete, glabrous, lenticellate. |
Leaves : | Leaves simple, alternate, spiral; petiole up to 1.5 cm long, planoconvex in cross section, glabrous; lamina 6.5-12.5 x 3-4.3 cm, oblanceolate to narrow elliptic, apex narrowly acuminate, base acute to attenuate, margin serrate and slightly recurved, glabrous; midrib canaliculate above; secondary_nerves 6-12 pairs; tertiary_nerves obliquley distantly percurrent. |
Flowers : | Inflorescence axillary racemes, up to 14 cm long, tomentose. |
Fruit& seed : | Drupe, ellipsoid or oblong, ca. 1.5 cm long; seeds 1-2. |