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| Habit : | Trees up to 5 m tall. |
| Branches and Branchlets : | Young branchlets flat, pubescent. |
| Leaves : | Leaves simple with opposite, decussate, unequal pairs; stipules small, oblong, pubescent, caducous; petiole 0.2-1.8 cm long, terete, swollen at both ends, pubescent; lamina 5.5-14 x 2-6 cm, narrow elliptic-rhombic to oblanceolate, apex caudate, base acute sometimes rounded to retuse, margin irregularly sinuate-dentate, subcoriaceous, resinous yellow glandular and glabrous beneath; midrib raised above; secondary_nerves 5-10 pairs; tertiary_nerves obliquely_percurrent. |
| Inflorescence / Flower : | Flowers in slender terminal and axillary racemes, pubescent. |
| Fruit and Seed : | Capsule 3-lobed, yellow pellucid punctate with many short stout echinate processes; seeds 3. |