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| Habit : | Trees, up to 20 m tall. |
| Trunk & Bark : | Bark smooth, brownish black. |
| Branches and Branchlets : | Branchlets puberulous, later glabrous. |
| Leaves : | Leaves simple, alternate, distichous; petioles ca. 0.5 cm long; lamina 15-26 x 6-8.5 cm, oblong or elliptic-lanceolate, apex acuminate, acumen to 3 cm long, base rounded or truncate, glabrous, midrib impressed above, secondary_nerves 10-14 pairs, tertiary_nerves reticulate. |
| Inflorescence / Flower : | Flowers on twigs solitary and/or up to 10 in fascicles on tubercles of the trunk; pedicels 4-5.5 cm long and 2-3 mm across. |
| Fruit and Seed : | Cluster of berries, up to 7, oblong-ovoid, glabrous, 3 x 2.5 cm, stalks ca. 1.8 cm long; seeds oblong. |