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Habit : | Trees up to 30 m tall. |
Trunk & Bark : | Bark brownish, smooth. |
Branches and Branchlets : | Branchlets subterete, glabrous. |
Leaves : | Leaves simple, alternate, spiral; petiole 2-3.5 cm long, stout, canaliculate, glabrous; lamina 13.5-18 x 6-9.5 cm, elliptic to elliptic-obovate, apex acute or obtuse, base rounded-attenuate to acute, margin entire, glabrous, glaucous beneath, coriaceous; midrib slightly canaliculate; secondary_nerves ca. 8 pairs, not prominent; tertiary_nerves obscure; higher order nerves closely reticulate. |
Inflorescence / Flower : | Flower in axillary racemes. |
Fruit and Seed : | Berry, depressed globose, 2 cm long, seated on short flattened fruiting_perianth_cup; seed 1. |