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| Habit : | Trees up to 15 m tall. |
| Branches and Branchlets : | Branchlets slender, glabrous. |
| Leaves : | Leaves simple, alternate, distichous; petiole to 2 cm long, canaliculate above; lamina 7-13 x 2.5-7 cm, lamina elliptic-oblong to oblong-lanceolate, shortly and bluntly acuminate or acute, base rounded and slightly decurrent, glabrous, subcoriaceous, nerves finely reticulate; midrib canaliculate above; secondary_nerves 8-11 pairs. |
| Inflorescence / Flower : | Flowers unisexual; male flowers in short cymes with 3-4 subsessile flowers in each; female flowers solitary, sessile. |
| Fruit and Seed : | Berry, globose, subsessile, 3 cm across, densely brown tomentose; fruiting_calyx_accrescent, strongly reflexed with thin wavy margins; 1-4 seeded. |