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| Habit : | Trees up to 5 m tall. |
| Trunk & Bark : | Bark grey, fissured; blaze pale yellow. |
| Branches and Branchlets : | Branchlets slender, drooping, spreading, subglabrous. |
| Leaves : | Leaves simple, alternate, distichous; stipules small, 0.2 cm long, ovate-triangular, slightly pubescent; petiole 0.15-0.3 cm long, canaliculate, subglabrous; lamina 5-9 x 1.4-2.7 cm, narrow elliptic, apex gradually bluntly acuminate with mucronate tip, base acute to cuneate or slightly oblique, margin entire, chartaceous, midrib flat above; secondary_nerves ca. 10 pairs, looped; tertiary_nerves reticulate. |
| Inflorescence / Flower : | Inflorescence terminal spikes; Flowers unisexual, dioecious. |
| Fruit and Seed : | Drupe, red, ovoid, small; 1-seeded. |