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Habit : | Lofty buttressed trees, up to 60 m tall. |
Trunk & Bark : | Bark white or pale grey, usually cracked in irregular flakes; blaze brown. |
Branches and branchlets : | Young branchlets subterete to slightly quadrangular, glabrous. |
Leaves : | Leaves simple, opposite, decussate; petiole 0.4-1.3 cm long, canaliculate, glabrous; lamina 5-10 x 2.5-4 cm, elliptic (linear in young seedling and later becomes narrow oblong), apex caudate or caudate-acuminate, (acumen 0.8-1.8 cm long), base acute or attenuate, margin entire, chartaceous, glabrous, pellucid gland dotted, leaves pink when young; midrib canaliculate; intramarginal nerve present; secondary_nerves closely parallel; tertiary veins slender, admedially ramified. |
Inflorescence / Flower : | Inflorescence corymbose cyme, terminal; flowers white. |
Fruit and Seed : | Berry subglobose, crowned by persistent calyx, purple; seed one. |