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| Habit : | Trees up to 20 m tall. |
| Trunk & Bark : | Bark smooth, dark; blaze reddish. |
| Branches and Branchlets : | Branchlets terete, adpressed hairs when young. |
| Leaves : | Leaves simple, alternate, distichous; petiole to 0.6-1.1 cm long, canaliculate, hairy when young, glabrous when mature; lamina to 6-18 x 3.5-7.5 cm, oblong to elliptic-oblong, apex gradually acuminate with blunt tip, sometimes obtuse, base acute to cuneate, margin entire, coriaceous, glabrous, drying brown; midrib canaliculate above; secondary_nerves 8-13 pairs, not prominent; tertiary_nerves obscure. |
| Inflorescence / Flower : | Flowers unisexual, dioecious; male flowers in axillary clusters on very short tubercles, silky tomentose; female flowers sessile, in axillary clusters. |
| Fruit and Seed : | Berry, globose, to 2.5 cm across, glabrous when mature; calyx_persistent, lobes reflexed with wavy margin; seeds 4. |