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| Habit : | Trees up to 30 m tall. |
| Trunk & Bark : | Bark light brown, lenticellate; blaze pinkish. |
| Branches and Branchlets : | Branchlets terete, glabrous. |
| Leaves : | Leaves simple, alternate, spiral, clustered at twig ends; petiole 1.2-4.5 cm long, canaliculate, glabrous; lamina 7-20.3 x 3-8 cm long, variable in shape, obovate or elliptic to elliptic-oblong, apex rounded or acuminate or acute, base acute to rounded, margin entire, coriaceous, glabrous, glaucous beneath, aromatic when squeeze; midrib canaliculate above; secondary_nerves 8-12 pairs; tertiary_nerves distantly percurrent, slender; higher order nerves closely reticulate. |
| Inflorescence / Flower : | Flowers in terminal, spreading panicles. |
| Fruit and Seed : | Berry, globose to 2 cm across, black when ripe. |