Tree to 8 m high; branchlets ± glabrous except for indumentum and glands at nodes. Leaves of main canopy with lamina ovate, 5–15 cm long, 4–10 cm wide, rounded at base, entire margin, acuminate at apex, ± glabrous except for sessile glands when young; petiole 2.5–3.5 cm long; leaves of adventitious stems ovate, serrate. Pedicels 0.5–1 mm long. Calyx obscurely 2-lipped with 1 lip distinctly 2-lobed, the other obscurely 3-toothed. Corolla white; tube 2 mm long, glabrous; lobes 1.5 mm long, pubescent inside and sometimes outside. Stamens long-exserted, exceeding lobes, subdidynamous; filaments c. 2–3 mm long; anther locules divergent at base. Ovary glandular at apex; style c. 3.5 mm long, exceeding stamens. Drupe ± globose, acuminate, c. 4.5 mm long, slightly ribbed, black.
Home