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| Habit : | Trees up to 30 m tall. |
| Trunk & Bark : | Bark black, flaky; blaze pale dull orange to dark orange, particularly towards inside. |
| Branches and Branchlets : | Branchlets terete, glabrous. |
| Leaves : | Leaves simple, alternate, distichous; petiole to 1 cm long, flat above, glabrous; lamina 7-15.2 x 2.5-6 cm, narrow oblong to oblong-elliptic, apex acuminate with blunt tip, base rounded, margin entire coriaceous to subcoriaceous; midrib slightly impressed above; secondary_nerves 4-7 pairs, ascending, lower most 2 pairs of nerves oblique and close; tertiary_nerves reticulate or weakly percurrent. |
| Inflorescence / Flower : | Flowers dioecious; male flowers white, in axillary clusters or in short cymes, tubular; female flowers solitary, sessile. |
| Fruit and Seed : | Berry, globose; fruiting_calyx inner rim raised; lobes reflexed; seeds 6. |