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| Habit : | Trees, up to 25 m tall. |
| Trunk & Bark : | Trunk buttressed, bark thin, smooth. |
| Branches and Branchlets : | Branchlets subglabrous, terete, lenticellate. |
| Leaves : | Leaves simple, alternate, distichous; petiole 0.5-1 cm long, planoconvex; lamina 7-9 x 2.5-4 cm, usually elliptic, sometimes narrow elliptic, apex acuminate with blunt tip, base acute, chartaceous, glabrous; midrib slightly canaliculate above; secondary_nerves 6-8 pairs, slender; tertiary_nerves admedially_ramified. |
| Inflorescence / Flower : | Flowers axillary clusters, subsessile, brown, petals tomentose. |
| Fruit and Seed : | Cluster of several seeded berries, obovate, 3 x 2 cm, subsessile. |