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| Habit : | Trees up to 8 m tall. |
| Trunk & Bark : | Bark black; blaze reddish. |
| Branches and Branchlets : | Branchlets densely long (0.5 cm) hirsute. |
| Leaves : | Leaves simple, alternate, distichous; petiole 0.4 cm long, hirsute, terete; lamina 5.5-15 x 2-6.5 cm narrow elliptic-oblong to oblanceolate, apex acuminate, base rounded to subcordate, chartaceous, drying brown densely hirsute on both sides of midrib and at margin, sparsely hirsute on lamina beneath, glabrous above; midrib raised above; secondary_nerves 8-13 pairs, slender; tertiary_nerves broadly reticulate. |
| Inflorescence / Flower : | Flowers unisexual; male flowers in short axillary 1-2 flowered cyme; female flowers solitary, axillary. |
| Fruit and Seed : | Berry, ovate, bristly hairy to 2 x1.5 cm, fruiting_calyx linear; seeds 4, oblong. |