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| Habit : | Trees up to 8 m tall. |
| Trunk & Bark : | Bark whitish; blaze reddish brown. |
| Branches and Branchlets : | Branchlets slender, glabrous, terete. |
| Leaves : | Leaves simple, alternate, spiral; stipule minute, caducous; petiole 1-1.5 cm long, canaliculate, glabrous; lamina 8-13 x 2.5-5 cm, elliptic to lanceolate, apex acute to acuminate with blunt tip, base acute, margin distantly crenulate with glands at crenatures, chartaceous, glabrous; midrib raised above; secondary_nerves 8-12 pairs; tertiary_nerves broadly reticulate. |
| Inflorescence / Flower : | Inflorescence dichotomous cymes; flowers white, unisexual, monoecious; central flower of each cyme subsessile female. |
| Fruit and Seed : | Capsule, three 2-valved cocci, seeds 3. |