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| Habit : | Trees buttressed, up to 15 m tall. |
| Trunk & Bark : | Bark smooth, pale brown. |
| Branches and Branchlets : | Branchlets angular, glabrous. |
| Leaves : | Leaves simple, opposite to subopposite; petiole stout, 1-2.5 cm long, planoconvex in cross section, glabrous; lamina 7-18 x 2.5-7.5 cm, ovate to ovate-lanceolate, apex obtuse, base attenuate, coriaceous, glabrous; trinerved suprabasal, lateral nerves not reaching leaf apex; midrib raised above; tertiary_nerves horizontally_percurrent; higher order nerves closely reticulate often obscure. |
| Inflorescence / Flower : | Inflorescence axillary panicles, lax, up to 7 cm long. |
| Fruit and Seed : | Berry, ellipsoid, up to 2.5 cm long; fruiting_calyx cup fleshy, 1.5 cm long with remnants of non-enlarged lobes; seed 1. |