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| Habit : | Trees up to 10 m tall. |
| Trunk & Bark : | Bark smooth, brownish, lenticellate; blaze light orange. |
| Branches and Branchlets : | Young branchlets terete, fulvous tomentose. |
| Leaves : | Leaves simple, alternate, spiral, subverticilate; petiole 0.8-1.2 cm long, flat, densely fulvous tomentose; lamina 11-24 x 2-6.3 cm, narrowly long elliptic-oblanceolate, apex narrowly acute to acuminate; base narrowly cuneate, margin entire, chartaceous, densely tomentose on midrib and nerves beneath, glabrous above except midrib; midrib raised above; secondary_nerves 7-14 pairs, very oblique; tertiary_nerves closely_horizontally_percurrent. |
| Inflorescence / Flower : | Flowers unisexual, dioecious, in umbels on short peduncle. |
| Fruit and Seed : | Berry, black when ripe, seated on cup shaped fruiting_perianth; seed 1. |