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Botanical descriptions Habitat and ecology Distribution
| Diagnostic characters : | Evergreen trees, bark deeply fissured, boat-shaped. Exudate watery, yellowish. Leaves simple, opposite, secondary veins numerous at right angles to the midrib. Flowers white, stamens numerous. Fruit a drupe. |
| Habit : | Evergreen tree. |
| Trunk & bark : | Characteristic yellowish green deeply fissured, these boat-shaped. Inner-bark fibrous, reddish. |
| Branches and branchlets or twigs : | Branches terete, yellow-brown pubescent when young. |
| Exudates : | Exudate watery turning yellowish. |
| Leaves : | Leaves simple, opposite 5-10 x 2-3.5 cm, elliptic, glabrous, apex acute to acuminate, base acute to attenuate. Primary vein single, secondary veins very numerous, parallel and at right angles to the midrib. Stipules absent. |
| Inflorescences or flowers : | Inflorescence terminal or axillary, flowers white, pedicels longer than 5 mm. |
| Fruits : | Fruit a drupe, greenish to yellow-brown. |
| Seeds : | Seed 1. |