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Habit : | Trees up to 25 m tall. |
Trunk & Bark : | Bark light brown, lenticellate. |
Branches and Branchlets : | Branchlets terete, subglabrous. |
Leaves : | Leaves simple, alternate, distichous; petiole 0.8-1.5 cm long, canaliculate above, subglabrous; lamina 8-25 x 3-11 cm, oblong sometimes elliptic-oblong, apex shortly acuminate with blunt tip, base rounded or acute, margin entire, coriaceous, glabrous, glaucous beneath; midrib canaliculate above; secondary_nerves 7-13 pairs, prominent, nearly parallel to margin; tertiary_nerves distantly percurrent, slender; higher order nerves finely reticulate. |
Inflorescence / Flower : | Flowers in axillary or terminal lax panicle. |
Fruit and Seed : | Drupaceous, globose, smooth, 1.5 cm across; seed 1. |