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| Habit : | Small trees, up to 12 m tall. |
| Branches and Branchlets : | Branchlets minutely ferruginous pubescent. |
| Leaves : | Leaves simple, alternate, distichous; petiole to 0.6-1.3 cm long, canaliculate; ferruginous pubescent; lamina 8-16 x 3.5-6.7 cm ovate to elliptic, apex acuminate with blunt tip, base acute to rounded, margin entire, coriaceous, dark green above, glabrous; domatia hairy at axils of secondary_nerves; secondary_nerves 6-8 pairs, prominent; tertiary and higher order nerves reticulate. |
| Inflorescence / Flower : | Flowers solitary or 2-3 in leaf opposed cymes, pedicels ca.1 cm long, pubescent; petals white to yellow. |
| Fruit and Seed : | Clustered 1-2 seeded berries, globose, tomentose. |