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Botanical descriptions Ecology Distribution Literature
Habit : | Large shrubs to small trees up to 6 m tall. |
Trunk\bark : | Bark greyiesh brown, scaly; blaze with orange speckles. |
Branchlets : | Young branchlets angular, terete when mature, glabrous; apical bud usually exudes yellow resin. |
Leaves : | Leaves simple, opposite, decussate; stipules triangular with apiculate tip, interpetiolar, caducous and leaving scar; petiole 0.5-2 cm, canaliculate, glabrous; lamina 8-18 x 4-8 cm, elliptic to elliptic-ovate, apex shortly and abruptly acuminate with blunt tip, base attenuate, margin entire and revolute, glabrous beneath; midrib usually raised above and canaliculate when dry; secondary_nerves 9-12 pairs, hairy domatia present at axils of secondary_nerves; tertiary_nerves broadly reticulate. |
Flowers : | Inflorescence terminal corymbose cymes; flowers cream to yellow, subsessile. |
Fruit& seed : | Berry, 2-celled; seeds many. |