morinda elliptica  

Trees up to 10 m; young branches subterete, bark smooth, greenish, glabrous; older branches terete, bark shallowly fissured, brownish to grey. Leaves elliptic, 4-6.5 by 10-19.5 cm; coriaceous; base cuneate; margin undulate; apex acute or acuminate; secondary veins 6-8 pairs, venation prominent; upper leaf surface light green, lower leaf surface greenish; domatia usually presences in axils of secondary veins on the lower surface, glabrous on both surfaces, drying dark black; petiole 1-2.5 cm long, glabrous. Stipules triangular, acute to acuminate, connate at base, usually caducous. Inflorescence axillary or in axils of fallen leaves; capitula solitary or paired; peduncle at anthesis 3-6 cm long. Flowers 56-merous, fragrant, bisexual; calyx tube at least basally connate, glabrous; calyx lobes obtuse or triangular; corolla hypocrateriform, white or greenish; corolla tube 0.6-1 cm long, glabrous on both sides; corolla lobes oblong, 2-2.5 by 5.5-8 mm, glabrous on both sides. Stamens exserted, attached to the tube by a short filament; filaments linear, curved, 1-2 mm long; anthers white or yellowish grey, oblong, 5-6 mm long; style white, 1.3-1.6 cm long, glabrous; stigma bilobed, 4-6 mm long, exserted in the corolla tube. Infructescences subglobose or oblique, glabrous, with 38-60 fruitlets. Pyrene elliptic or ovoid, 4.5-6 by 6.5-8 mm.