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| Habit : | Trees up to 18 m tall. |
| Trunk & Bark : | Bark smooth, brown. |
| Branches and Branchlets : | Branchlets subterete, densely adpressedly brown tomentose. |
| Leaves : | Leaves simple, alternate, spiral; petiole 1-2 cm long, brown tomentose; lamina 7-23 x 4-11 cm, obovate-oblong, apex usually abruptly acuminate, base acute-cuneate, margin entire, subcoriaceous, brown tomentose on midrib and nerves beneath intercostals glabrous; midrib canaliculate above; secondary_nerves 8-16 pairs, strong, nearly parallel till margin; tertiary_nerves distantly percurrent. |
| Inflorescence / Flower : | Flowers in sessile or subsessile umbellules, axillary or lateral on old branches. |
| Fruit and Seed : | Berry oblong, to 1.2 cm long, seated on sessile fruiting_perianth_cup; seed 1. |