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| Habit : | Trees up to 12 m tall. |
| Trunk & Bark : | Bark finely fissured, light brown. |
| Branches and Branchlets : | Young branchlets relatively stout, terete, densely rufous tomentose. |
| Leaves : | Leaves simple, subverticilate; petiole stout, up to 3.5 cm long, planoconvex in cross section; tomentose; lamina 12-22 x 5.5-10 cm, generally obovate sometimes oblanceolate, apex obtuse or bluntly acute to shortly acuminate, base narrow cuneate, rufous-tomentose beneath and on midrib above, glaucous beneath; midrib raised above; secondary_nerves 8 or 9 pairs; tertiary_nerves nearly horizontally_percurrent. |
| Inflorescence / Flower : | Flowers unisexual, dioecious, fascicled on lateral tubercles. |
| Fruit and Seed : | Berry, seed 1. |