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| Habit : | Trees up to 6 m tall. |
| Trunk & Bark : | Bark grey, smooth; blaze cream. |
| Branches and Branchlets : | Branchlets terete, glabrous. |
| Leaves : | Leaves simple, alternate, spiral; stipules caducous; petiole 0.3-0.5 cm long, planoconvex in cross section, glabrous; lamina 3.5-10.2 x 2-4 cm, obovate or oblanceolate, apex obtuse, base cuneate, sometimes asymmetric; midrib flat above; secondary_nerves ca. 6 pairs, not prominent; tertiary_nerves obscure. |
| Inflorescence / Flower : | Flowers unisexual, dioecious; male flowers small in axillary fascicles; female flowers solitary, axillary. |
| Fruit and Seed : | Capsule, smooth, deeply lobed, keeled on the lobes, 0.6 cm in diameter; seeds 1 per lobe. |