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Habit : | Small trees up to 10 m tall. |
Trunk & Bark : | Bark rough, greyish brown, irregularly flaky; blaze reddish brown. |
Branches and branchlets : | Young branchlets quadrangular, glabrous. |
Leaves : | Leaves simple, opposite, decussate; petiole up to 1 cm long, planoconvex in cross section, glabrous; lamina up to 10 x 2.5 cm, narrow oblong, oblong-lanceolate, apex obtuse or acute with blunt tip, base attenuate, margin entire, pellucid gland dotted, coriaceous, shining above, glabrous beneath; midrib slightly canaliculate above; intramarginal nerve present; secondary_nerves many, parallel, slender; tertiary_nerves admedially ramified. |
Inflorescence / Flower : | Inflorescence cymes, usually lateral, from the scars of fallen leaves, rarely axillary, flowers white, sessile or shortly pedicelled. |
Fruit and Seed : | Berry, oblong-ellipsoid, ca. 1 cm long, crowned by calyx lobes. |