| Type | Indigenous |
|---|---|
| Family | Lauraceae |
| Habit | Large sized tree |
| Botanical Features | Dioecious trees, to 20 m high; bark greyish-brown, lenticellate, blaze dull yellow; branchlets ferruginous tomentose. Leaves simple, alternate, estipulate; petiole 10-25 mm long, stout, ferruginous; lamina 10-25 x 3.5-14 cm, broadly, elliptic-oblong or obovate, base slightly acute, obtuse or truncate, apex obtuse, margin entire, glabrous above and roughly fulvous-pubescent beneath, coriaceous; lateral nerves 7-12 pairs, pinnate, prominent beneath, intercostae scalariform, prominent. Flowers unisexual, yellowish, in axillary, lateral or cauliflorus umbellules 10-20 together; peduncle 7-10 mm long; bracts orbicular, densely hairy; flowers 6-8 in an umbellule, sessile; perianth lobes 5, oblong, densely hairy; stamens 12, in 4 rows; filaments hairy, of rows 1 and 2 eglandular, those of rows 3 and 4 with 2-glands filaments; staminodes as the stamens of male but those of inner rows subulate and 2-glandular; ovary enclosed irregularly lobed perianth cup, half inferior; style thick; stigma diliated. Fruit a berry 2.5-3 x 1.5-2 cm, ellipsoid, obtuse, reddish-brown, glabrous, seated on the enlarged obconic perianth tube . |