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| Habit : | Trees up to 10 m tall. |
| Branches and Branchlets : | Branchlets terete, glabrous. |
| Leaves : | Leaves simple, alternate, distichous; petiole 0.6-1.4 cm long, canaliculate above, glabrous; lamina 5-11 x 2-4 cm variable in shape, elliptic to obovate, apex bluntly acuminate to obtuse, base acute to cuneate, margin entire or sometimes slightly revolute, coriaceous, glabrous, dull green when dry; midrib canaliculate above; secondary_nerves ca. 4; tertiary_nerves obscure. |
| Inflorescence / Flower : | Flowers polygamodioecious, in short axillary or leaf opposed cymes, white. |
| Fruit and Seed : | Drupe, cylindrical ellipsoid, to 1-1.5 cm; seed 1. |