Glochidion ellipticum Wight

Trees, to 15 m high, bark blackish-grey or dark brown, with shallow vertical striations; blaze red; branchlets sometimes sparsely puberulous when young, soon glabrous. Leaves simple, alternate; stipule lateral; petiole 2-9 mm long, stout, glabrous; lamina 4-17 x 1.5-9 cm, elliptic, oblong, elliptic-oblong, elliptic-lanceolate, oblong-lanceolate, subfalcate or obovate, base acute, attenuate, round or oblique, apex apiculate to acuminate or obovate, margin entire, coriaceous, glabrous, glossy; lateral nerves 5-12 pairs, pinnate, prominent. Flowers unisexual, yellow, in dense clusters from leafscars; male flowers: pedicels 5-17 mm long, filiform; tepals 3+3, 1.5-5 x 0.3-2 mm, ovate, elliptic, triangular, oblong, linear or spathulate; stamens 3-4, 1-1.5 mm long; connectives produced; female flowers: sessile or pedicels 1-5 mm; tepals 3+3, 1-3 x 0.5-1 mm, linear, oblong, elliptic or triangular; ovary superior, 0.5-1 mm across, subglobose, usually 4 locular, ovules 2 in each cell; style 2-3 mm, columnar to conical, sometimes obconic; lobes corresponds to locules, suborbicular, oblong or linear, occasionally bilobulate, erect or spreading. Fruit a capsule 3-10 x 6-15 mm, depressed, unlobed or shallowly to deeply lobed with the lobes rounded or bilobular; seeds brown, glabrous; pedicels 2-8 mm.