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Habit : | Trees up to 30 m tall. |
Trunk & Bark : | Bark grey, smooth; blaze orange. |
Branches and Branchlets : | Branchlets terete, glabrous; apical buds small, pubescent without coriaceous scales. |
Leaves : | Leaves simple, alternate, spiral, sometimes subopposite, clustered at twig ends; petioles 1-1.5 cm; lamina 9.5-15 x 3.5-6 cm, elliptic to ovate-lanceolate, apex acute to shortly acuminate with blunt tip, base acute to attenuate, margin entire, glabrous, smooth and shining above, coriaceous; secondary_nerves ca.10 pairs, slender, gradually curved; tertiary_nerves strongly reticulate. |
Inflorescence / Flower : | Flowers in short axillary panicles. |
Fruit and Seed : | Berry, ellipsoid, ca. 1.7 cm long; fruiting pedicel stout, red; fruiting_perianth caducous. |