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| Habit : | Trees up to 12 m tall. |
| Trunk & Bark : | Bark brown, lenticellate; blaze light orange. |
| Branches and Branchlets : | Young branchlets terete, rusty tomentose. |
| Leaves : | Leaves simple, subverticilate; petiole to 2.5 cm long, planoconvex in cross section, pubescent; lamina 8.5-21 x 2.5-6 cm, narrow elliptic, apex sharply acute-acuminate, base acute-cuneate, margin entire, subcoriaceous, shining above, glaucous, rusty tomentose beneath, glabrous above; midrib slightly raised above; secondary_nerves 8-12 pairs; tertiary_nerves close, percurrent but not prominent, nearly horizontal. |
| Inflorescence / Flower : | Flowers unisexual, dioecious, in fascicled on short peduncle. |
| Fruit and Seed : | Berry, globose, seated on fruiting_perianth cup, black when ripe; seeds 1. |