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| Habit : | Trees up to 20 m tall. |
| Trunk & Bark : | Bark brownish, lenticellate; blaze white to cream. |
| Branches and Branchlets : | Branches with architecture of “Aubreville_model”; branchlets terete with fallen leaf scars, lenticellate. |
| Leaves : | Leaves simple, alternate, spiral, clustered at twig ends; petiole 3 cm long, planoconvex in cross section, purple; lamina to 8 × 5 cm, broad elliptic to elliptic-oblong, apex acuminate, base acute, margin serrate, subcoriaceous, glabrous, red when senescent; midrib and nerves purple; secondary_nerves ca. 7 pairs, forked with glabrous domatia at axils beneath; tertiary_nerves reticulo-percurrent. |
| Inflorescence / Flower : | Inflorescence axillary racemes, purple, to 15 cm long; pedicel 1 cm long, purple; flowers white with laciniate petals; anthers neither bearded and nor awned. |
| Fruit and Seed : | Drupe, ellipsoid, 4 × 3 cm, 1-seeded. |