| Type | Indigenous |
|---|---|
| Family | Oleaceae |
| Synonym | Linociera zeylanica (L.) Gamble |
| Habit | Small to medium sized tree |
| Botanical Features | Trees, to 10 m high, bark greyish-black, smooth; branchlets minutely hairy. Leaves simple, opposite, estipulate; petiole 5-10 mm, stout, glabrous, grooved above; lamina 4.5-12 x 3-5.5 cm, obovate or elliptic, base cuneate or attenuate, apex obtusely acute or emarginate, margin entire, recurved, glabrous, coriaceous; lateral nerves 8-13 pairs, pinnate, slender, faint, looped near the margin; intercostae reticulate, faint. Flowers bisexual, cream, in axillary panicles, 5 cm long, bracts cauducous; bracteoles 1 mm; calyx lobes small, 4 teethed, 1.6 mm, ciliate, tawny-pubescent with out, acute; corolla lobes 4, 3 mm across, lanceolate; stamens 2, filaments short, attached at the base of corolla; anthers lanceolate, 1.5 mm; ovary 1 mm, 2-celled, superior, glabrous, ovules 2 in each cell, pendulous from its apex; style 0.5 mm. Fruit a drupe, 6 x 4 mm, obovoid. |