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| Habit : | Small trees. |
| Trunk & Bark : | Bark smooth, brown. |
| Branches and Branchlets : | Branchlets terete, glabrous. |
| Leaves : | Leaves simple, alternate, spiral; stipules caducous; petiole 0.5-1 cm long, canaliculate; lamina 5.5-8 x 3-5.5 cm, obovate or orbicular, apex obtuse or retuse, base cuneate; midrib slightly raised above; secondary_nerves ca. 5 pairs; tertiary_nerves reticulate. |
| Inflorescence / Flower : | Flowers unisexual, dioecious; male flowers in axillary catkins, 2.5 cm long; female flowers in condensed cymes. |
| Fruit and Seed : | Capsule fusiform, glabrous, beaked, 2 cm long, 2-4 seeded. |