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| Habit : | Trees up to 25 m tall. |
| Trunk & Bark : | Bark brown, smooth; blaze brown. |
| Branches and Branchlets : | Branchlets terete, glabrous; apical buds elongated protected with lanceolate scales. |
| Leaves : | Leaves simple, alternate, spiral to opposite or subopposite, clustered at twig ends; petiole 0.5-1.8 cm long, slightly canaliculate; lamina 5-13 x 2.5-6 cm, elliptic to narrow elliptic, apex acuminate, often acumen twisted, base acute to cuneate, margin entire, glabrous, shining, aromatic when squeeze; midrib slightly canaliculate; secondary_nerves 7-12 pairs, branched, relatively acute in angle; tertiary_nerves strongly reticulate. |
| Inflorescence / Flower : | Inflorescence axillary and subterminal panicle, glabrous. |
| Fruit and Seed : | Berry, ellipsoid, 2 cm long; fruiting_perianth_lobes caducous ; seed 1. |