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| Habit : | Trees, up to 10 m tall. |
| Trunk & Bark : | Bark smooth, black. |
| Branches and Branchlets : | Branchlets angular, glabrous. |
| Leaves : | Leaves simple, alternate, distichous; petiole 0.6-1.3 cm long, stout, canaliculate; lamina 8-16.5 x 3.8-6 cm, elliptic to oblong sometimes nearly narrow oblong, apex acuminate with blunt tip (acumen 0.5-0.8 cm long), base acute, margin entire, glabrous; secondary_nerves 8-12 pairs, very slender, sometimes invisible towards margin; tertiary_nerves obscure. |
| Inflorescence / Flower : | Flowers solitary on long peduncle, axillary, greenish white, slightly pubescent. |
| Fruit and Seed : | Cluster of 1-seeded berry, oblong to obovate, stalked, glabrous. |