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| Habit : | Trees up to 10 m tall. |
| Trunk & Bark : | Bark black, smooth; blaze pale red. |
| Branches and Branchlets : | Branchlets densely long (to 0.25 cm) hairy. |
| Leaves : | Leaves simple, alternate, distichous; petiole 0.2-0.4 cm long, stout, densely hirsute; lamina 5-14 x 2.2-6 cm oblong or oblanceolate, apex bluntly acute to acuminate, base rounded to subcordate, subcoriaceous, densely soft hairy on both surface when young, later become glabrous above except on midrib; secondary_nerves 6-11 pairs; tertiary_nerves broadly reticulate. |
| Inflorescence / Flower : | Flowers unisexual; female flowers clusters of 1-3, axillary. |
| Fruit and Seed : | Berry, conical or ellipsoid-ovate with dense rufous bristles; fruiting_calyx_lobes oblong; seeds 3-4. |