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| Habit : | Trees up to 10 m tall. |
| Trunk & Bark : | Bark smooth. |
| Branches and Branchlets : | Young branchlets terete, rusty tomentose. |
| Leaves : | Leaves simple, alternate, spiral, subverticilate; petiole to 2.5 cm long, terete, rusty tomentose; lamina 12-27 x 4-6.5 cm, narrow-elliptic to oblanceolate, apex acuminate, base cuneate to acute, margin undulate, chartaceous, glaucous, fulvous tomentose when young, later glabrous except midrib beneath; midrib raised; secondary_nerves 7-10 pairs; tertiary_nerves nearly closely and horizontally_percurrent, not prominent. |
| Inflorescence / Flower : | Flowers unisexual, dioecious; female flowers in umbels on short peduncle. |
| Fruit and Seed : | Berry, globose, to 1 cm across; seeds 1. |