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| Habit : | Trees up to 10 m tall. |
| Trunk & Bark : | Bark grey, peeling off in large flakes; blaze light orange. |
| Branches and Branchlets : | Branchlets brown or greyish, terete, glabrous. |
| Leaves : | Leaves simple, alternate distichous; stipule caducous; petiole 0.3-0.8 cm long, lamina 5-9 x 2-4 cm, elliptic to ovate, apex acuminate with blunt tip, base asymmetric, margin entire, thinly coriaceous, glabrous; midrib flat above; secondary_nerves 5-7 pairs sometimes with hairy domatia at the axils at least 1 or 2 lower most pairs; tertiary_nerves reticulate. |
| Inflorescence / Flower : | Flowers unisexual, dioecious, in axillary clusters. |
| Fruit and Seed : | Drupe, densely rufous hirsute, seeds 2. |