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| Habit : | Large shrubs or small trees, up to 6 m tall. |
| Branches and Branchlets : | Branchlets densely hirsute. |
| Leaves : | Leaves simple, alternate, distichous; petiole nearly terete, densely hirsute 0.3 to 0.5 cm long; lamina 5-15 x 3-7 cm elliptic to narrow ovate, apex acuminate-caudate with blunt tip (acumen 0.8 to 2.2 cm long), base acute to rounded, glabrous above, margin ciliate when young, chartaceous; midrib impressed above, hirsute; secondary_nerves 6-8 pairs, strong, ascending; tertiary_nerves reticulate. |
| Inflorescence / Flower : | Flowers solitary, axillary, sessile, velvety cream tomentose. |
| Fruit and Seed : | Clustered few-seeded berries, subsessile, torulose, hirsute when young. |