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| Habit : | Trees, slightly buttressed, up to 16 m tall. |
| Trunk & Bark : | Bark smooth, light brown with strong cinnamon smell; blaze brown. |
| Branches and Branchlets : | Branchlets slender, subterete, glabrous. |
| Leaves : | Leaves simple, opposite to subopposite, rarely alternate, spiral; petiole to 2 cm long, planoconvex in cross section, glabrous; lamina 8-16 x 3-5 cm, elliptic-ovate to elliptic-lanceolate apex acute to acuminate, base acute to attenuate, margin entire, glabrous, coriaceous; trinerved (rarely 5-nerved), suprabasal, laterals not reaching the leaf apex, strongly cinnamon smell; tertiary_nerves horizontally_percurrent; higher order nerves minutely reticulate. |
| Inflorescence / Flower : | Inflorescence axillary panicles, 20 cm long, many flowered; flowers pale yellow green. |
| Fruit and Seed : | Berry, ellipsoid, dark purple, 1.2 cm long; fruiting_perianth_cup ribbed with persistent lobes; seed 1. |