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| Habit : | Moderate sized trees, up to 15 m tall. |
| Trunk & Bark : | Bark black, peeling off in irregular flakes. |
| Branches and Branchlets : | Branchlets terete, glabrous. |
| Leaves : | Leaves simple, alternate, distichous; petiole 0.5-0.7 cm long, glabrous; lamina 5.5-9 x 2-3.8 cm, lanceolate to narrow elliptic-oblong, apex acute with blunt tip, base acute, coriaceous, shining; secondary_nerves 8-11 pairs; tertiary_nerves reticulate, prominent on both surfaces. |
| Inflorescence / Flower : | Flowers unisexual, cream colored; male inflorescence in few-flowered axillary cymes; female flowers solitary. |
| Fruit and Seed : | Berry, globose, 2.5 cm in diameter; seeds 4 oblong, ruminate. |