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Botanical descriptions Habitat and ecology Distribution
| Habit : | Deciduous shrub up to 2 m. tall, 0.4 cm in DBH. |
| Trunk & bark : | Trunk smooth, greenish-brown, lenticellate, outer bark green, inner bark orange, sapwood yellow. |
| Branches and branchlets or twigs : | Branches glabrous, often with pair of nodes closed together, the distal one developing only one leaf so that the leaves occur in group of three. |
| Exudates : | Exudate absent. |
| Leaves : | Simple leaves, opposite, sometime in group of three, elliptic to oblong 4-7 x 12-20 cm. in length, apex acute, base acute to attenuate, margin entire, blade subcoriaceous, glabrous on both side. Midrib flat above, prominent below. Primary vein single, secondary veins obtuse, closely parallel, 7-10 pairs. Stipule interpetiolar, small, triangular. |
| Inflorescences or flowers : | Solitary large flower, terminal but sometime seemingly axillary, few to 1 flower, funnel shape, tube up to 6 cm. long, and lobe up to 4 cm. long, whitish cream and red dots inside corolla, with entensive sweet smell. |
| Fruits : | Fruit berry-like, solitary, globose to ovoid, learhery, indehiscent, about 3-4 cm. in diameter. Young fruit green. |
| Seeds : | Seeds numerous. . |