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Habit : | Trees up to 20 m tall. |
Trunk & Bark : | Bark light brown, lenticellate; blaze light orange. |
Branches and Branchlets : | Young branchlets subterete, glabrous. |
Leaves : | Leaves simple, alternate, spiral, clustered at twig ends; petiole 1.2-2 cm long, planoconvex in cross section, glabrous; lamina 7-11 x 3-3.5 cm, elliptic to narrow elliptic, apex narrowly acute to acuminate, base attenuate, glaucous beneath, subcoriaceous; midrib raised above; trinerved just above the base with ca. 4 pairs of secondary_nerves; tertiary_nerves distantly reticulo-percurrent; higher order nerves closely reticulate. |
Inflorescence / Flower : | Inflorescence umbels, axillary or lateral clusters. |
Fruit and Seed : | Berry, ellipsoid-oblong; fruiting_perianth scarcely accrescent and crenate; seed 1. |