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| Habit : | Trees up to 15 m tall. |
| Trunk & Bark : | Bark light brown, smooth; blaze light orange. |
| Branches and Branchlets : | Branchlets terete, rufous tomentose. |
| Leaves : | Leaves simple, alternate, spiral; petiole 0.5-0.7 cm long, planoconvex in cross section, tomentose; lamina 6-14 x 3-6 cm, elliptic-oblong to elliptic-ovate, apex rounded-obtuse or shortly acuminate, base rounded to acute, tomentose beneath at least on the nerves beneath, glaucous beneath; midrib canaliculate; secondary_nerves ca. 7 pairs; tertiary_nerves distantly percurrent. |
| Inflorescence / Flower : | Flowers in short congested axillary or terminal tawny-tomentose panicles. |
| Fruit and Seed : | Drupe, ovoid-ellipsoid, black; 1-seeded. |