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Habit : | Trees up to 10 m tall. |
Trunk & Bark : | Bark greyish-brown, smooth. |
Branches and branchlets : | Branchlets terete, slender, glabrous. |
Leaves : | Leaves simple, opposite, decussate; petiole 0.6-1.2 cm long, canaliculate, glabrous; lamina 5-12.5 x 2.5-6 cm, obovate to rounded or obcordate, apex obtuse or retuse, base cuneate - attenuate, margin entire, glabrous, thinly coriaceous, pellucid gland dotted; midrib canaliculate above; intramarginal nerves present; secondary nerve 8-12 pairs, distant; tertiary_nerves broadly reticulate. |
Inflorescence / Flower : | Inflorescence cymes, axillary or from scars of fallen leaves; flowers white. |
Fruit and Seed : | Berry, globose, crowned with persistent calyx. |