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| Habit : | Trees up to 12 m tall. |
| Trunk & Bark : | Bark dark grey with horizontal lenticels. |
| Branches and Branchlets : | Branches slender drooping; branchlets angular, pubescent when young. |
| Leaves : | Leaves simple, alternate, distichous; stipule triangular, acute, caducous; petiole 0.4-1 cm long, nearly glabrous, planoconvex in cross section; lamina 5- 9.5 x 1.5-3.5 cm, elliptic-oblong to elliptic-ovate, apex acute or slightly acuminate with blunt tip, base asymmetric, margin serrate, chartaceous, dark green and shining, glabrous; midrib nearly flat above; secondary_nerves 9-12 pairs, slender; tertiary_nerves reticulate. |
| Inflorescence / Flower : | Flower unisexual; male flowers in axillary clusters; female flowers axillary, solitary. |
| Fruit and Seed : | Drupe, ellipsoid, with persistent style; seed 1. |