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Botanical descriptions Habitat and ecology Distribution
| Diagnostic characters : | Evergreen trees, bark fibrous. Terminal buds and stipules less than 35 mm long. Stipules intrapetiolar, sheathing falling and leaving a circular scar. Flowers unisexual on the same tree. Fruit a drupe, orange-red when mature crowned by persistent calyx and 2 styles. |
| Habit : | Evergreen tree up to 30 m tall. |
| Trunk & bark : | Bole straight, sometimes with buttresses, bark grey-brown, smooth. |
| Branches and branchlets or twigs : | Twigs terete, hairy. |
| Exudates : | Exudate absent. |
| Leaves : | Leaves simple, alternate and distichous, elliptic-oblong, apex acute, base rounded to cuneate, asymmetrical or not, margin entire or finely toothed. Midrib flat above, secondary veins oblique, widely parallel, tertiary veins oblique. Stipules long. |
| Inflorescences or flowers : | Flowers arranged in a many-flowered inflorescence, unisexual, on different trees, pedicels longer than 0.5 cm. |
| Fruits : | Fruit up to 1.4 cm long, compressed, with 2 persistent styles. |
| Seeds : | Seed 1. |