| Description : | Trees or shrubs. Branches erect or horizontally spreading, unarmed, with many short branchlets, glabrous;Leaves variable, those on previous year’s branches usually alternate, those on short branches approximate and often fascicled; leaf blade lanceolate to elliptic-lanceolate,base broadly cuneate to rounded, margin shallowly densely serrate, apex acute to shortly acuminate. Flowers solitary, opening before leaves. Hypanthium cylindrical, outside glabrous. Sepals broadly oblong to broadly lanceolate. Petals white or pinkish, oblong to obovate-oblong. Stamens unequal in length. Ovary densely tomentose. Style longer than stamens. Drupe obliquely ovoid to oblong. endocarp yellowish white to brown, ovoid, broadly ellipsoid, or shortly oblong, asymmetric on both sides. Seed sweet or bitter. |
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