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| Habit : | Trees up to 25 m tall. |
| Trunk & Bark : | Bark black with longitudinal fissures. |
| Branches and Branchlets : | Young branchlets terete, appressed pubescent, matured ones glabrous. |
| Leaves : | Leaves simple, alternate, distichous; petiole 0.6-0.9 cm, canaliculate; lamina 5-8 x 1.3-2.5 cm, elliptic-lanceolate, apex acute or gradually acuminate with blunt tip, base acute to attenuate, coriaceous; midrib flat; secondary_nerves ca. 6 pairs, ascending, lower most pairs close; tertiary_nerves prominently reticulate. |
| Inflorescence / Flower : | Flowers unisexual; male flowers sessile on axillary short peduncle; female flowers solitary with large leathery folded foliaceous calyx lobes. |
| Fruit and Seed : | Berry, globose, ca. 4 cm across, black pubescent; seeds 4, oblong, compressed. |