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| Habit : | Small trees, up to 8 m tall. |
| Trunk & Bark : | Bark horizontally lenticellate; blaze slightly reddish brown. |
| Branches and Branchlets : | Young branchlets terete, villous. |
| Leaves : | Leaves simple, opposite, decussate; stipule lanceolate, caducous; petiole reddish, to 3 cm long, canaliculate; lamina to 12 x 8 cm, broadly elliptic to obovate, apex acute-acuminate, base cuneate to rounded, margin distally serrate to dentate, all nerves impressed above; midrib canaliculate; secondary_nerves 5-7 pairs, subopposite; tertiary_nerves percurrent. |
| Inflorescence / Flower : | Inflorescence in drooping panicles; flowers white. |
| Fruit and Seed : | Drupe, red, oblong, 1.5 x 0.8 cm; seed one, oblong, 1 cm compressed with a median, T-shaped ventral groove. |