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| Habit : | Trees up to 8 m tall. |
| Trunk & Bark : | Bark black; blaze light brown. |
| Branches and Branchlets : | Young branchlets terete, pubescent. |
| Leaves : | Leaves simple, alternate, distichous; petiole up to 0.5 cm long, planoconvex in cross section; lamina 4.5-8.5 x 1.5-3.5 cm, elliptic to elliptic-lanceolate, chartaceous, apex acute with blunt tip, base acute, glabrous; midrib canaliculate; secondary_nerves ca.11 pairs, tertiary_nerve closely reticulate. |
| Inflorescence / Flower : | Flowers unisexual, dioecious; male flower in axillary cymes; female flowers solitary, axillary, with cream and hairy petals. |
| Fruit and Seed : | Berry with fruiting_calyx; 1-3 seeded. |