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| Habit : | Tree up to 8 m tall. |
| Trunk & Bark : | Bark smooth. |
| Branches and Branchlets : | Branchlets slender, angular, densely, minutely subadpressed fulvous pilose. |
| Leaves : | Leaves simple, opposite to subopposite, petiole 1-1.3 cm, planoconvex in cross section; lamina 5-12 x 2.5-5 cm, ovate to ovate-elliptic to elliptic-lanceolate, apex acute to acuminate, base acute to attenuate, margin entire, tomentose when young, later glabrous, coriaceous; trinerved basally or suprabasally, lateral nerves reaching leaf apex; tertiary_nerves horizontally_percurrent; higher order nerves minutely reticulate. |
| Inflorescence / Flower : | Inflorescence axillary lax panicles, up to 15 cm long, tomentulous. |
| Fruit and Seed : | Berry, ellipsoid, 1.5 cm long; fruiting_perianth_cup shallow with distinct persistent ovate lobes; seed 1. |