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| Habit : | Trees up to 20 m tall. |
| Trunk & Bark : | Bark yellowish or brown; blaze cream. |
| Branches and Branchlets : | Branchlets angular, glabrous, sometimes with minute hairs. |
| Exudates : | Latex cream colored, profuse. |
| Leaves : | Leaves simple, opposite, decussate; petiole 0.6-2.1 cm long, planoconvex, or canaliculate above, horizontally rugose, slightly sheathing at base, glabrous; lamina 7-15 x 3-7.5 cm, elliptic to narrow elliptic or narrow ovate, apex usually rounded sometimes acute, base rounded or slightly attenuate, margin revolute, coriaceous; secondary_nerves nearly parallel, and looped near margin; tertiary_nerves obscure; latex ducts clearly visible beneath. |
| Inflorescence / Flower : | Flowers dioecious; male and female flowers in axillary clusters on short peduncle. |
| Fruit and Seed : | Berry, globose, 5 cm across; 1-4 seeded. |