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| Habit : | Trees, up to 15 m tall. |
| Trunk & Bark : | Bark finely fissured, blaze brown. |
| Branches and Branchlets : | Branchlets stout, glabrous. |
| Exudates : | Latex black and scanty. |
| Leaves : | Leaves simple, alternate, spiral; petiole 1-2.7 cm long, stout, glabrous, usually twisted; lamina 8-23 x 3.5-6.2 cm, oblong to oblanceolate, apex acuminate, base acute, margin slightly undulate, glabrous, coriaceous, glaucous beneath; midrib slightly raised above; secondary_nerves 9-25 pairs, nearly parallel; tertiary_nerves weakly percurrent. |
| Inflorescence / Flower : | Inflorescence axillary racemes, 2-4 cm long, rusty pubescent; flowers polygamous. |
| Fruit and Seed : | Drupe, reddish, oblate, 1 x 1.5 cm, apiculate, 1-seeded. |