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| Habit : | Trees up to 5 m tall. |
| Branches and Branchlets : | Branchlets terete, glabrous. |
| Exudates : | Latex white, profuse. |
| Leaves : | Leaves simple, opposite, decussate; stipule caducous; petiole 0.7-1 cm long, planoconvex in cross section, glabrous; lamina up to 15.2 x 3.8 cm, oblanceolate to elliptic-lanceolate, chartaceous, apex acuminate, base acute, margin crenulate; secondary_nerves 10-16 pairs; tertiary_nerves distantly obliquely_percurrent. |
| Inflorescence / Flower : | Flowers unisexual, dioecious; male flowers in slender axillary spikes, ca. 5 cm long; female few flowered axillary racemes. |
| Fruit and Seed : | Capsule, trilobed; seeds 3 subglobose. |