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| Habit : | Trees up to 8 m tall. |
| Trunk & Bark : | Bark blackish, smooth; blaze pink. |
| Branches and Branchlets : | Branchlets terete. |
| Leaves : | Leaves simple, alternate, distichous; petiole to 2 cm long, terete; lamina 13-20 x 4-7 cm, elliptic to oblong-lanceolate, apex acuminate, base attenuate, glabrous, chartaceous; secondary_nerves ca. 15 pairs, slender; tertiary_nerves broadly reticulate, not prominent. |
| Inflorescence / Flower : | Flowers unisexual; male flowers, sessile axillary clusters; female flower clusters of 1-5, axillary or on older branches, sessile. |
| Fruit and Seed : | Berry, sessile, ovoid with truncate apex, 8-10 grooved, hairy; fruiting_calyx_lobes with wavy margin; seeds 10. |