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| Habit : | Trees up to 28 m tall. |
| Trunk & Bark : | Bark black; blaze light orange. |
| Branches and Branchlets : | Young branchlets terete, brown puberulous. |
| Leaves : | Leaves simple, alternate, distichous; petiole 0.7 cm long, canaliculate, hairy when young later glabrous; lamina 5-15 x 1.8-5 cm, oblong to elliptic-oblong, acuminate with blunt tip, base acute, subcoriaceous, glabrous and shining; midrib raised above; secondary_nerves 6-8 pairs, slender; tertiary_nerves closely_horizontally_percurrent. |
| Inflorescence / Flower : | Flowers unisexual; male flowers in axillary cymes, tawny pubescent; female flowers in cauliflorus cymes, rusty tomentose. |
| Fruit and Seed : | Berry, globose, woody, 7 cm across; fruiting_calyx woody; seeds up to 10, oblong-oval. |