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Habit : | Small trees ca. 7 m tall. |
Trunk\bark : | Bark brown, fissured when mature; blaze reddish. |
Branchlets : | Young branchlets terete, minutely pubescent. |
Leaves : | Leaves simple, ternately whorled, sometimes opposite, decussate; stipules triangular with acuminate tip, interpetiolar; petiole 0.5-0.8 cm long, planoconvex in cross section, pubescent when young; lamina 5.5-10 x 1.8-4 cm, elliptic to elliptic-lanceolate, apex acuminate, base attenuate - decurrent, margin entire, chartaceous, pubescent beneath; midrib raised above; secondary_nerves ca. 8 pairs; tertiary_nerves broadly reticulate. |
Flowers : | Inflorescence dense terminal thyrsoid cymes; flowers whitish. |
Fruit& seed : | Loculicidal capsule, globose, 2-valved; seed many, small. |