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Botanical descriptions Habitat and ecology Distribution
Diagnostic characters : | Evergreen trees with bluish fruits. |
Habit : | Evergreen tree up to 20 m. tall. |
Trunk & bark : | Bole straight. Bark smooth to densely pustular or chafy-flaky, dark brown to grey. |
Branches and branchlets or twigs : | Twigs terete, glabrous or hairy. |
Exudates : | Exudate absent. |
Leaves : | Leaves simple, alternate and spiral, narrowly elliptic, apex acute, base acute, margin toothed, glandular. Primary vein single, secondary veins 8-16, oblique, tertiary veins reticulate. Stipules absent. |
Inflorescences or flowers : | Flowers arranged in a many-flowered inflorescence, axillary or behind the leaves, bisexual, pedicels up to 3 mm long. |
Fruits : | Fruit drupe, up to 1 cm long, bluish, thinly fleshy. |
Seeds : | Seed 1. |