Description

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Growth Form: Trees.

Stems: Young branches terete (cylindrical), glabrous.

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Leaves: Leaves simple. Alternate, often opposite at tips of young branches. Blades narrowly ovate to ovate, ca. 10 cm long, 3–4 cm wide. Apex gradually acute. Surfaces glabrous, glossy green; hairs, when present, simple; blades usually leathery, usually with aromatic oil or mucilage cells. Margins entire. Tripliveined. Petiolate. Stipules absent.

Flowers: Flowers strigose, in short, paniculate inflorescences. Flowers usually bisexual (perfect), usually aromatic, small, actinomorphic. Tepals 6, equal, ca. 4 mm long, strigose, basal part of or entire Tepals usually persisting on rim of cupule, usually arranged in whorls of 3, usually white, greenish white, or yellow, rarely reddish. Fertile stamens 9, outer 6 introrse, inner 3 extrorse and with basal glands, staminodia present, cordate; anthers tetrathecal. Ovary superior, 1-celled; ovule 1, anatropous.

Fruit: Berries ellipsoid;; subtended by a small cupule that has the basal; truncate parts of tepals attached to the rim. Seeds without endosperm.

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