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| Habit : | Small trees, up to 12 m tall. |
| Trunk & Bark : | Bark lenticellate, blaze cream. |
| Branches and Branchlets : | Branchlets slender, glabrous. |
| Exudates : | Latex milky white. |
| Leaves : | Leaves simple, opposite, decussate; petiole 1.3-1.9 cm long; lamina 6-12.7 x 1.4-2.5 cm, narrow elliptic-oblong to lanceolate, apex gradually acuminate to obtuse, base acute, margin entire, shining above, glabrous, chartaceous; midrib canaliculate above, with intramarginal veins; secondary_nerves many slender; tertiary_nerves admedially_ramified. |
| Inflorescence / Flower : | Flowers in terminal or leaf opposed cymes, white, fragrant. |
| Fruit and Seed : | Drupe, globose, orange red when ripe, 1 or 2-seeded. |