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| Habit : | Trees up to 10 m tall. |
| Trunk & Bark : | Bark brown, lenticellate; blaze light orange. |
| Branches and Branchlets : | Young branchlets terete, brown villous tomentose. |
| Leaves : | Leaves simple, subverticilate; petiole up to 2.5 cm long, planoconvex in cross section, brown villous tomentose; lamina 12-26 x 5-8.5 cm, elliptic - long elliptic, apex acute or slightly acuminate, base acute, margin entire, shining above, villous beneath, glabrous above; midrib slightly raised above; secondary_nerves strong, 8-12 pairs; tertiary_nerves, prominent, closely and horizontally_percurrent. |
| Inflorescence / Flower : | Flowers unisexual, dioecious, on lateral clusters; peduncles up to 0.5 cm. |
| Fruit and Seed : | Berry, globose, within the cup shaped fruiting_perianth tube; seed 1. |