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| Habit : | Tree up to 6 m tall. |
| Trunk & Bark : | Bark smooth, light brown;. |
| Branches and Branchlets : | Branchlets slender, angular, minutely subsericeous. |
| Leaves : | Leaves simple, opposite to subopposite; petiole 0.5-1.5 cm, planoconvex in cross section, glabrous; lamina 7-11 x 2-4 cm, elliptic-oblong to lanceolate, apex acuminate, base acute, margin entire, chartaceous; trinerved, basal; lateral nerves not reaching the leaf tip, tertiary_nerves horizontally_percurrent; higher order nerves closely reticulate. |
| Inflorescence / Flower : | Flowers axillary panicled cymes, few flowered, glabrous. |
| Fruit and Seed : | Berry, ellipsoid, apiculate; fruiting_perianth_cup shallow with persistent lobes; seed 1. |