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| Habit : | Trees up to 25 m high. |
| Trunk & Bark : | Bark blackish, smooth; blaze brown. |
| Branches and Branchlets : | Branchlets terete, hirsute when young. |
| Leaves : | Leaves simple, alternate distichous; petiole 0.3-1.1 cm long, terete; lamina 5.5-13.5 x 3-6 cm, elliptic to ovate-lanceolate, apex narrowly acuminate with blunt tip, base acute to slightly attenuate, coriaceous when mature; midrib raised above; secondary_nerves 3-6 pairs, sometimes lowermost pairs opposite and acute in angle; tertiary_nerves nearly percurrent. |
| Inflorescence / Flower : | Flowers unisexual; male flowers in axillary cymes, brown tomentose. |
| Fruit and Seed : | Berry, globose, glabrous, 2.5 cm across; seeds 1-4, wedge shaped. |