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| Habit : | Trees slightly buttressed, up to 25 m tall. |
| Trunk & Bark : | Bark brown, large lenticellate; blaze pinkish. |
| Branches and Branchlets : | Young branchlets terete, pubescent. |
| Leaves : | Leaves simple, alternate, spiral; petioles 1.5-2.5 cm long; lamina 6.5-10 x 2.5-5 cm, elliptic to elliptic-ovate, apex acute to shortly acuminate sometimes obtuse, base asymmetric, margin revolute, glabrous, often puberulous along midrib above, coriaceous, drying black; midrib canaliculate above; secondary_nerves 6-10 pairs; tertiary_nerves broadly reticulate. |
| Inflorescence / Flower : | Inflorescence terminal or axillary corymbose cymes. |
| Fruit and Seed : | Drupe, ca. 1.5 cm long, obliquely ellipsoid, compressed; seeds 1, obovate, compressed. |