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Botanical descriptions Habitat and ecology Distribution
| Diagnostic characters : | Young leaves reddish-cream, on reddish and flaky twigs, with inflorescence rachis compressed, fruit with conspicuous reddish calyx rim. |
| Habit : | Evergreen tree up to 30 m high, branches ascending to the main trunk. |
| Trunk & bark : | Trunk slightly fluted at base or with short buttresses. Bark smooth to fissured or flaky, reddish brown or greyish brown, inner bark pinkish to purplish. Wood yellow brown to cream. . |
| Branches and branchlets or twigs : | Twigs terete, glabrous, reddish when young, light brown in mature. |
| Exudates : | Exudate absent. |
| Leaves : | Leaves simple, opposite, decussate, 4.5-8.7 cm by 2-3.8 cm, ovate or elliptic-oblong, apex acuminate to caudate, base acute, margin entire, blade leathery, glabrous on both sides, young leaves reddish-cream, finely puberulent. Midrib canaliculated above, primary vein single, pinnate, secondary veins oblique to the midrib, closely parallel, tertiary veins admedial, single intramarginal vein. Petiole caniculated and glabrous. Stipules absent. |
| Inflorescences or flowers : | Flowers white, sessile grouped in lateral and terminal inflorescence with conspicuous reddish calyx rim, axis more or less compressed. |
| Fruits : | Fruit is a berry, globular or depressed globular, 0.7-0.8 by 0.8 – 1.2 cm in diameter, smooth, with conspicuous calyx rim. |