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Botanical descriptions Habitat and ecology Distribution
Diagnostic characters : | Small evergreen twiggy spiny trees, branchlets glabrous. Exudate white. Leaves simple, alternate, distichous, margins dentate and spiny especially near the apex. Stipules absent. Flowers unisexual on the same tree. Fruit a fleshy drupe. |
Habit : | Small evergreen bushy twiggy tree up to 8 m. |
Trunk & bark : | Trunk dark grey often with short spiny twigs, branches with axillary spines. |
Branches and branchlets or twigs : | Branches terete, glabrous. |
Exudates : | Exudate white. |
Leaves : | Leaves simple, alternate, distichous 5-10 x 1-4 cm, elliptic to ovate rarely obovate, glabrous apex acute to acuminate, base acute to rounded, margin dentate particularly near apex. Midrib flat. Primary vein single, secondary veins 5-7, oblique, looped, tertiary veins reticulate. Petiole 2 mm, terete, glabrous. Stipules absent. |
Inflorescences or flowers : | Flowers unisexual on the same tree, male 1-4, axillary, in heads, female usually solitary, small, greenish. |
Fruits : | Fruit a fleshy drupe, ellipsoidal. |
Seeds : | Seed 1. |