| Type | Indigenous |
|---|---|
| Family | Lauraceae |
| Habit | Small to medium |
| Botanical Features | Dioecious trees; branchlets slender, terete. Leaves simple, alternate; petiole upto 5 mm long, stout, pubescent; lamina 5-12 x 1-2.5 cm, lanceolate, oblong, linear-lanceolate or elliptic-oblong, base acute, apex acute or acuminate, margin entire, glabrous, chartaceous; lateral nerves 6-8 pairs, pinnate, slender, prominent, intercostae reticulate, obscure. Flowers unisexual, yellowish, in subsessile umbellules; bracts orbicular, 3 mm long, seriaceous out and glabrous within; 5 flowers in each umbellule; perianth lobes 6, oblong, seriaceous out; stamens 9 perfect, in 3 rows, those of row 1 and 2 eglandular, those of 3 row glandular; filaments glabrous; staminodes 9, those of outer row subulate, those of inner row possess 2 glands at base; ovary half inferior, ovate, glabrous; style thick; stigma capitate. Fruit a berry. |