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Botanical descriptions Habitat and ecology Distribution
| Diagnostic characters : | Evergreen trees. Leaves simple alternate and spiral, glabrous, margin dentate. Flowers bisexual, white with numerous stamens. Fruit a capsule. |
| Habit : | Small, evergreen tree up to 10 m tall. |
| Trunk & bark : | Bole straight, bark reddish-brown, thin, smooth. |
| Branches and branchlets or twigs : | Twigs terete, glabrous. |
| Exudates : | Exudate absent. |
| Leaves : | Leaves simple, alternate and spiral, glabrous, elliptic, apex acuminate, base acute, margin slightly dentate. Primary vein single, secondary veins obtuse, tertiary veins reticulate. Stipules absent. |
| Inflorescences or flowers : | Flowers white, arranged in an 1--3-flowered inflorescence, axillary, bisexual, pedicels up to 3 mm long. |
| Fruits : | Fruit capsule up to 2.5 cm in diameter, splitting into 2 - 3 irregular sections. |
| Seeds : | Seeds many. |