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| Habit : | Trees up to 7 m tall. |
| Trunk & Bark : | Bark brown, lenticellate, smooth; blaze light orange. |
| Branches and Branchlets : | Young branchlets subterete, glabrescent. |
| Leaves : | Leaves simple, alternate distichous; petiole 0.4-1.5 cm long, planoconvex in cross section, glabrous; lamina 7-18 x 2-5.5 cm, usually oblanceolate to narrow elliptic, apex acuminate, base acute, margin entire, chartaceous, glaucous beneath, glabrescent beneath; midrib flat above; secondary_nerves 7-9; tertiary_nerves reticulo-percurrent. |
| Inflorescence / Flower : | Inflorescence umbels in axillary and lateral sessile or shortly peduncled clusters; flowers unisexual. |
| Fruit and Seed : | Berry, ellipsoid, to 1.5 cm long, seated on fruiting_perianth_cup; seed 1. |