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Habit : | Small trees up to 7 m tall. |
Branches and branchlets : | Young branchlets terete, densely fulvous short tomentose. |
Leaves : | Leaves simple, opposite, decussate; petiole 1.5 cm long, canaliculate, tomentose when young; lamina 7.2-10.5 x 3.2-6 cm, broadly elliptic, apex shortly acuminate with blunt tip to obtuse, base cuneate - attenuate, margin revolute, coriaceous, floccose beneath throughout when young or at least near base and on midrib when mature, pellucid gland dotted; midrib canaliculate above; secondary_nerves, not prominent, ca. 12 pairs; intramarginal nerve present; tertiary_nerves obscure. |
Inflorescence / Flower : | Flowers large, white, solitary or in short few flowered terminal cymes. |
Fruit and Seed : | Berry, globose, crowned with calyx lobes, densely tomentose; seed one. |