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| Habit : | Trees up to 16 m tall. |
| Trunk & Bark : | Bark black, smooth; blaze dull orange. |
| Branches and Branchlets : | Young branchlets terete, covered by black, sooty hairs. |
| Leaves : | Leaves simple, alternate, distichous; petiole 0.5-1.1 cm long, flat, glabrous; lamina 9-27 x 3.5-8 cm, usually narrow elliptic-oblong to lanceolate, apex acute to acuminate with blunt tip, base acute to rounded, margin entire, coriaceous with minute pellucid punctate beneath, strongly and closely reticulate on both surfaces; midrib raised above; secondary_nerves 6-9 pairs. |
| Inflorescence / Flower : | Flowers unisexual; male flowers in axillary paniculate cymes; female flowers axillary, solitary or 2-5 flowered cymes; calyx covered with black sooty hairs. |
| Fruit and Seed : | Berry, ovoid covered with rusty and sooty hairs when young, later glabrous; calyx_accrescent, foliaceous with folded lobes, black sooty hairs inside; seeds 4, smooth. |