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| Habit : | Tree, up to 8 m tall. |
| Trunk & Bark : | Bark smooth, brown, odourless; blaze yellowish. |
| Branches and Branchlets : | Branchlets angular, densely minutely tomentose. |
| Leaves : | Leaves simple, opposite to subopposite; petiole 1-3.5 cm, tomentose; lamina 6-11 x 2.5-5.5 cm, broadly elliptic-ovate, apex abruptly shortly acuminate with broad acumen, base acute to rounded, young leaves dense fulvous tomentose, glabrous later, paler beneath, coriaceous; trinerved basal or suprabasal, laterals reaching nearly to leaf apex; tertiary_nerves horizontally_percurrent; higher order nerves minutely reticulate. |
| Inflorescence / Flower : | Inflorescence axillary panicles, few flowered, minutely tomentulous. |
| Fruit and Seed : | Berry, ellipsoid; fruiting_perianth_cup densely wooly; seed 1. |