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| Habit : | Buttressed trees, up to 25 m tall. |
| Trunk & Bark : | Bark grey, smooth with lenticels, odourless; blaze light brown to reddish. |
| Branches and Branchlets : | Branchlets terete, glabrous. |
| Leaves : | Leaves simple, opposite to subopposite; petiole ca. 2.5 cm, terete, glabrous; lamina 6-12 x 2.5-6 cm (in young trees lamina up to 20 x 12 cm), ovate to elliptic-ovate, glabrous, apex obtuse, base rounded to attenuate, subcoriaceous, glossy above, pale beneath; basally trinerved, laterals not reaching the apex, midrib raised; tertiary_nerves broadly horizontally_percurrent; higher order nerves reticulate. |
| Inflorescence / Flower : | Inflorescence panicle, lax, up to 15 cm long, slender; pedicels. |
| Fruit and Seed : | Berry, ellipsoid, 1.8 cm long; fruiting_calyx cupular, 0.6 cm long, without distinct lobes; seed 1. |