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| Habit : | Tree, up to 8 m tall. |
| Trunk & Bark : | Bark smooth, grey, pustular. |
| Branches and Branchlets : | Young branchlets angular and matured ones terete, glabrous. |
| Leaves : | Leaves simple, opposite to subopposite or alternate, spiral; petiole 1-2 cm, planoconvex in cross section, glabrous; lamina 5-7.5 x 3.5-4 cm, ovate to elliptic-ovate sometimes suborbicular, apex obtuse or obtusely shortly acuminate, base rounded to attenuate, thickly coriaceous, glabrous, glaucous; trinerved (sometimes 5-nerved) basal or suprabasal, lateral nerves not reaching the leaf tip; tertiary_nerves horizontally_percurrent; higher order nerves minutely reticulate. |
| Inflorescence / Flower : | Inflorescence axillary, and pseudoterminal panicles, generally up to 8 cm long, few flowered. |
| Fruit and Seed : | Berry, ellipsoid, up to 1.5 cm long; fruiting_perianth_cup fleshy, obconical with basal remnants lobes; seed 1. |