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Botanical descriptions Habitat and ecology Distribution
| Diagnostic characters : | Evergreen trees, bark scurfy-flaky, twigs hairy. Leaves simple alternate and distichous, margin toothed, below with stellate hairs. Primary nerves three, basal. Stipules present, free. Flowers bisexual. Fruit a large orange drupe. |
| Habit : | Evergreen tree up to 20 m tall. |
| Trunk & bark : | Bole straight, sometimes fluted, bark pale brown, inner bark fibrous. |
| Branches and branchlets or twigs : | Twigs terete, hairy. |
| Exudates : | Exudate absent. |
| Leaves : | Leaves simple, alternate and distichous, with stellate hairs, elliptic or obovate, apex acute to acuminate, base rounded, margin toothed at the top. 3 prominent basal veins present, secondary veins oblique, widely paralles, tertiary veins reticulate. Stipules present, linear, falling off early. |
| Inflorescences or flowers : | Flowers arranged in a many-flowered inflorescence, terminal or in the upper axils, bisexual, pedicels up to 3 mm long. |
| Fruits : | Fruit up to 2.5 cm long, drupe orange-red, leathery. |
| Seeds : | Seed 1. |