| Type | Indigenous |
|---|---|
| Family | Lauraceae |
| Synonym | Cinnamomum sulphuratum sensu Bourd. |
| Habit | Small sized tree |
| Botanical Features | Trees, to 8 m high; branchlets slender, angular, minutely densely subappressed or appressed pilose; branches smooth, glabrous, striate. Leaves simple, opposite, estipulate; petiole 5-15 mm long, slender, appressed pilose; lamina 5-9 x 1.5-4 cm, elliptic, elliptic-oblong or elliptic ovate, base acute, apex acute or acuminate, margin entire, appressed pilose when young, glabrous above when mature; glabrescent beneath, coriaceous; 3-ribbed from a little above the base, prominent beneath, side ribs ends 1-2 cm below the leaf tip, connected to the midrib at their ending point by a prominent transverse nerve; intercostae scalariform, faint. Flowers bisexual, in axillary and pseudo terminal, 1-3 cm long, light brown, subappressed pubescent racemes; peduncle slender; pedicel 1-3 mm long, funnel shaped; tepals 6, 4 mm long, oblong, acute, densely subappressed light brown pilose, subequal; stamens 9 perfect, 2.5-3 mm long, 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, staminodes 3, in row 4, 1-1.5 mm long, sagittate, stipe pilose; ovary half inferior, sessile, glabrous, at the bottom of the perianth tube, narrowed into thick style, stigma peltate. |