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| Habit : | Trees up to 20 m tall. |
| Branches and Branchlets : | Young branchlets short grey silky hairy, with fallen leaf scars. |
| Leaves : | Leaves simple, alternate, spiral, clustered at twig ends; stipules caducous; petioles 1.5-2.5 cm long, canaliculate, sparsely adpressed hairy; lamina 6-9.5 x 3-4.5 cm, elliptic or elliptic-ovate, apex acute to shortly acuminate with blunt tip, base rounded, margin shallowly serrate, glabrous; midrib slightly raised above; secondary_nerves ca.7 pairs, branched with domatia in the axils beneath; tertiary_nerves reticulo-percurrent. |
| Inflorescence / Flower : | Inflorescence axillary racemes, 4-6 cm long, sericeous, 6-7 flowered; flowers white, pedicels 1-1.2 cm long; anthers bearded, not ciliate. |
| Fruit and Seed : | Drupes, ellipsoid, 1.5 cm long, 1-seeded. |