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| Habit : | Large shrub or small trees, up to 5 m tall. |
| Branches and Branchlets : | Branchlets terete, glabrous. |
| Leaves : | Leaves simple, alternate, spiral; stipules triangular, caducous; petiole 0.9-1.3 cm long, canaliculate, glabrous; lamina 8-13 × 4-7 cm, elliptic to obovate, apex shortly acuminate or acute, base cuneate to attenuate, margin serrate or serrulate, coriaceous, glabrous; secondary_nerves 5-7 pairs; tertiary_nerves broadly reticulate. |
| Inflorescence / Flower : | Flowers in clusters on short peduncle in the axils of fallen leaves. |
| Fruit and Seed : | Capsule, 3-valved; seeds 6, arillate. |