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Botanical descriptions Ecology Distribution Status: Literatures
Habit : | Trees up to 8 m tall. |
Branches and branchlets : | Young branchlets quadrangular, glabrous. |
Leaves : | Leaves simple, opposite, decussate; petiole 0.2 cm long, glabrous; lamina 2.8-5×1.8-2.7 cm, elliptic to ovate -elliptic, apex acute or obtuse, base rounded or obtuse, margin entire or revolute, coriaceous, glabrous, pellucid punctuate; midrib canaliculate above; secondary_nerves many, parallel, slender, with intramarginal nerve; tertiary_nerves admedially ramified to obscure. |
Inflorescence / Flower : | Inflorescence dense terminal umbellate cymes; flowers greenish white; calyx tube funnel shaped, ca. 1 cm long. |
Fruit and Seed : | Berry, ca. 1.5 cm long, top shaped, crowned with persistent calyx; seeds 1-2. |