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| Habit : | Trees up to 8 m tall. |
| Branches and Branchlets : | Branchlets terete, glabrous. |
| Leaves : | Leaves simple, alternate, spiral, clustered at twig ends; petiole 0.3-2 cm long; lamina 7.5-20 x 1.7-6.5 cm, narrow elliptic-lanceolate, apex acuminate to caudate, base narrowly attenuate, glabrous, glaucous beneath; midrib slightly raised above; secondary_nerves 9-13 pairs, slender; tertiary_nerves reticulo-percurrent. |
| Inflorescence / Flower : | Inflorescence axillary or subterminal slender panicles, to 10 cm long; usually bisexual or rarely polygamous; perianth yellow; anthers 4 celled. |
| Fruit and Seed : | Berry, ellipsoid, black, 1.3 cm long; seed 1. |