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| Habit : | Trees up to 5 m tall. |
| Branches and Branchlets : | Branchlets subterete, glabrous, lenticellate. |
| Leaves : | Leaves simple with opposite, decussate, unequal pairs; stipules caducous; petiole 0.5 to 1 cm long, canaliculate, swollen at both ends; lamina 5.5-16 x 2.7-4.5 cm (variable) rhombic-elliptic to oblanceolate, narrowed at both ends, apex acute to acuminate, base cuneate, margin entire to sinuate-dentate, resinous yellow glandular beneath; midrib slightly raised above; secondary_nerves ca. 7 pairs; tertiary_nerves obliquely_percurrent. |
| Inflorescence / Flower : | Flowers unisexual, in axillary spikes. |
| Fruit and Seed : | Capsule, 3 cocci, sparsely yellow glandular and muricate; seeds 1 per cell. |