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Habit : | Trees up to 20 m tall. |
Trunk & Bark : | Bark brownish. |
Branches and Branchlets : | Branchlets subterete, with large lenticels, glabrous. |
Leaves : | Leaves simple, alternate, spiral; petiole ca. 1 cm long, planoconvex in cross section, glabrous; lamina 7.5-13 x 2.5-4 cm, elliptic-oblong to lanceolate, apex acute to obtuse, base acute to rounded, margin entire, glabrous, glaucous beneath; midrib canaliculate; secondary_nerves 6-8 pairs; tertiary_nerves broadly reticulate. |
Inflorescence / Flower : | Flowers in axillary or terminal panicle, pubescent. |
Fruit and Seed : | Drupaceous, ovoid, lenticellate, apparently ribbed when dry, 1.5 cm across; seed 1. |