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| Habit : | Trees up to 15 m tall. |
| Trunk & Bark : | Bark smooth, brown, pustular with aromatic smell; blaze pale brown. |
| Branches and Branchlets : | Branchlets subterete, glabrous. |
| Leaves : | Leaves simple, opposite to subopposite; petiole ca. 2 cm long, planoconvex in cross section, glabrous; lamina 9.5-30 x 3.5-7.5 cm, oblong or elliptic-oblong to oblong-lanceolate, apex acute to acuminate, base acute to attenuate, glabrous, shining above, aromatic, coriaceous; basally trinerved, laterals reaching nearly to leaf apex, midrib raised above; tertiary_nerves horizontally_percurrent; higher order nerves minutely reticulate. |
| Inflorescence / Flower : | Inflorescence pseudoterminal and axillary lax panicles, many flowered, pubescent. |
| Fruit and Seed : | Berry, ellipsoid; fruiting_perianth_cup 0.7 cm long with persistent lobes; seed 1. |