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| Habit : | Large shrubs or small trees, up to 8 m tall. |
| Trunk & Bark : | Bark grey, lenticellate, blaze cream. |
| Branches and Branchlets : | Branchlets whitish with impressed longitudinal reticulation, pubescent. |
| Leaves : | Leaves simple, alternate, distichous; petiole 0.3-0.8 cm long, pubescent when young, subglabrous when mature; lamina 4.6-12 x 1.5-3.6 cm, lanceolate to narrow ovate, apex caudate-acuminate (acumen up to 2 cm), base acute, margin entire, glabrous above, obscurely pellucid punctate and pubescent on nerves beneath; secondary_nerves 5-9 pairs; tertiary_nerves filiform, close, parallel to subparallel. |
| Inflorescence / Flower : | Flowers solitary, axillary or terminal, sessile, yellowish green or dirty white, tomentose. |
| Fruit and Seed : | Clustered 1 to 3-seeded berries, elliptic, sessile, velvety tomentose. |