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Botanical descriptions Habitat and ecology Distribution
Diagnostic characters : | Leaves alternate and distichous. Intramarginal veins, looped. Young twigs densely covered by yellowish to brown hirsute hairs. Fruit a fleshy drupe. |
Habit : | Small tree up to 10 m high. |
Trunk & bark : | Trunk straight . Bark smooth, pustular, whitish grey or brownish. |
Branches and branchlets or twigs : | Young shoots densely hairy with ferrugineous hairs. Branchlets terete, glabrous when mature. |
Exudates : | Exudate absent. |
Leaves : | Leaves simple alternate and distichous, 10-25 by 3-8 cm, oblong or lanceolate with tapering tip, base attenuate to rounded, margin entire, blade chartaceous, mature leaves glabrescent above, covered with silvery or yellowish velvety hairs below. Midrib canaliculated above, primary vein single, secondary veins oblique to the midrib, intramarginal veins looped, tertiary veins oblique. Petiole densely hairy with ferrugineous hairs, Stipules hairy, caducous. |
Inflorescences or flowers : | Flowers grouped in terminal and axillary compact spikes more or less hairy. |
Fruits : | Fruit is a fleshy drupe, 0.5-0.6 cm, globose or slightly oblique, finely hairy. |
Seeds : | Seed(s) 1-2. |