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| Habit : | Trees up to 15 m tall. |
| Trunk & Bark : | Bark brown, regularly scaly; blaze red. |
| Branches and Branchlets : | Branchlets terete, glabrous; apical bud usually covered by 4-6 imbricate ovate scales. |
| Exudates : | Latex yellowish cream. |
| Leaves : | Leaves simple, opposite, decussate; petiole 0.5-1.0 cm long, canaliculate, glabrous; lamina 10-23 x 4-7.5 cm, oblong, narrow-oblong to narrow obovate, apex obtuse or bluntly short acuminate, base obtuse, thickly coriaceous; midrib indistinct at apex; secondary_nerves many, parallel, perpendicular to midrib; tertiary_nerves finely reticulate with tiny transparent glands at the centre of areoles, sometimes invisible due to thick cuticle. |
| Inflorescence / Flower : | Flowers polygamous, white, clustered on old branches with elongated pedicels. |
| Fruit and Seed : | Berry, elliptic, beaked; 1-seeded. |