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| Habit : | Trees up to 8 m tall. |
| Trunk & Bark : | Bark grey, fissured; blaze white with orange speckles. |
| Branches and Branchlets : | Branchlets subterete, lenticellate, glabrous. |
| Leaves : | Leaves simple, alternate, spiral, clustered at twig ends; petiole 0.5-2 cm long, planoconvex in cross section, glabrous; lamina 4-11 x 2-4 cm, obovate, apex obtuse or rounded, base cuneate to acute, margin entire, coriaceous, glabrous, glaucous beneath; midrib slightly raised above; secondary nerves 6-9 pairs; tertiary nerves reticulo-percurrent. |
| Inflorescence / Flower : | Inflorescence panicle. |
| Fruit & Seed : | Berry ellipsoid, 2.5 cm long; seeds 1. |