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| Habit : | Large shrubs to small trees, 3-5 m tall. |
| Branches and Branchlets : | Branchlets glabrous. |
| Leaves : | Leaves simple, alternate, distichous; petiole 0.5-1.0 cm long, minutely pubescent when young, canaliculate; lamina 10-23 x 3.5-7.5 cm, varies from elliptic-oblong to oblanceolate, apex gradually acuminate, base acute to cuneate, margin undulate, glabrous, secondary_nerves 8-15 pairs, looped, intersecondary portion of lamina bulged above, tertiary_nerves broadly reticulate. |
| Inflorescence / Flower : | Flowers solitary, axillary or 1 to 3 clustered on older branches, sepals reddish green, petals pale green. |
| Fruit and Seed : | Fruits of many 1-seeded berries. |