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| Habit : | Small trees up to 8 m tall. |
| Trunk & Bark : | Bark brown, lenticellate, finely fissured; blaze white. |
| Branches and branchlets : | Young branchlets terete, pubescent, lenticellate. |
| Leaves : | Leaves simple, alternate, spiral, usually crowded at apex; petiole 1.5-2 cm long, canaliculate, minutely pubescent when young; lamina 5-10 x 2-4 cm, obovate to oblanceolate or narrow elliptic, apex acute to shortly acuminate, sometimes obtuse, base cuneate, margin entire; subcoriaceous, pale beneath, glabrous; midrib slightly canaliculate; secondary_nerves ca. 9 pairs; tertiary_nerves reticulate. |
| Inflorescence / Flower : | Inflorescence racemes; flowers cream; pedicel 0.5 cm long. |
| Fruit and Seed : | Capsule, 2 valved, ca. 1 cm across; seeds 4. |