| Type | Indigenous |
|---|---|
| Family | Lauraceae |
| Habit | Evergreen tree |
| Botanical Features | Evergreen trees, bark greyish-brown, smooth, bark yellowish-white or grey, smooth with shallow fissures, exfoliating in thick flakes, fibrous; blaze brown. Leaves simple, alternate, estipulate, clustered at the tip of branchlets; petiole 5-20 mm long, slender, grooved above, glabrous; lamina 8-25 x 2.5-6.5 cm, lanceolate, elliptic-obovate or elliptic-oblanceolate, base cuneate, apex long acuminate, margin entire, glabrous, coriaceous; lateral nerves 6-13 pairs, pinnate, prominent, flowers yellowish-green, in axillary, slender panicles; fruit a drupe, 10-12 mm long, ovoid or ellipsoid, glabrous, black. |