| Type | Indigenous |
|---|---|
| Family | Lauraceae |
| Habit | Small sized tree |
| Botanical Features | Trees, 15 m high. Leaves simple, opposite, estipulate; petiole lamina 19-20 x 7-9 cm, elliptic, base cuneate, apex obtuse, margin entire, sparsely hairy above, moderately hairy beneath, chartaceous, 3-ribbed from base, reaching the tip, intercostae scalariform, prominent. Flowers bisexual, 15-30, in axillary panicles, 10 cm long; pedicels short; perianth tube short, tepals 6, 2-3 mm long, tomentose, stamens 9 perfect, those of first and second rows opposite the perianth lobes, introrse and eglandular, those of third row opposite the first row, lateral, bearing 2 large glands at the base; staminodes 3, of the forth row opposite the second row, cordate and stipitate; ovary half inferior, sessile. Fruit a berry, upto 8 x 10 mm, subtended by shallow fleshy deep cup, the base conical; the rim with the persistent, thickened tepals, of which apical part drops off, the basal part rounded, pilose. |