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| Habit : | Trees up to 14 m tall. |
| Trunk & Bark : | Bark irregularly flaky; blaze cream. |
| Branches and Branchlets : | Branchlets yellowish, angular, glabrous. |
| Exudates : | Latex yellowish white. |
| Leaves : | Leaves simple, opposite, decussate, drooping; petiole stout, angular, horizontally rugose, sheathing at base, 1-3 cm long, glabrous; lamina 10-35 x 4-12 cm, linear-oblong to oblong, sometimes lanceolate, apex acute or slightly acuminate, base rounded or slightly attenuate, margin slightly revolute, thickly coriaceous, drying yellowish or brownish beneath; secondary_nerves many, joining into intramarginal vein; tertiary_nerves obscure. |
| Inflorescence / Flower : | Flowers dioecious, in fascicles, axillary or on older branches. |
| Fruit and Seed : | Berry, to 6.5 cm diameter, subglobose, 1-2 seeded. |