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| Habit : | A medium-sized evergreen tree, up to 12 m tall. |
| Trunk & Bark : | Bark brown, lenticellate; blaze brownish. |
| Branches and Branchlets : | Branchlets terete, glabrous. |
| Leaves : | Leaves simple, alternate, clustered at twig ends; petiole up to 5 cm long; lamina 7-12.5 x 3-7.5 cm, elliptic-oblong or obovate, apex obtuse with apiculate tip, base obtuse, margin entire, coriaceous, glaucous beneath; secondary_nerves ca. 8 pairs; tertiary_nerves reticulate. |
| Inflorescence / Flower : | Inflorescence axillary racemes; flowers dioecious sometimes monoecious; male flowers devoid of petals; anthers large and pink. |
| Fruit and Seed : | Drupe, ovoid or oblong, pericarp woody, 1-seeded. |