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Habit : | Trees to 12 m high. |
Trunk & Bark : | Bark greyish-brown, smooth; blaze reddish. |
Branches and branchlets : | Branchlets terete, glabrous. |
Leaves : | Leaves simple, opposite, decussate; petiole 0.4-0.6 cm long, slender, canaliculate, glabrous; lamina 7.5 x 2.5 cm, elliptic or elliptic-lanceolate, apex acuminate or acute and twisted, base cuneate or acute, margin entire, pellucid gland dotted, chartaceous, glabrous; midrib canaliculate; secondary_nerves many, parallel, slender; intramarginal nerve present; tertiary_nerves admedially ramified to obscure. |
Inflorescence / Flower : | Inflorescence axillary and terminal cymes; flowers, white; pedicel 0.2 cm; calyx tube funnel shaped. |
Fruit and Seed : | Berry, 1.2 cm long, ovoid - turbinate, bright scarlet, crowned with persistent calyx. |