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Habit : | Trees up to 8 m tall. |
Trunk\bark : | Bark brownish, smooth, lenticellate; blaze rosy. |
Branchlets : | Young branchlets terete, rusty pubescent. |
Leaves : | Leaves simple, alternate, spiral; petiole 0.5-1.3 cm long, stout, canaliculate, rusty pubescent when young, later glabrous; lamina 7-16 x 2-5.5 cm, narrow elliptic to oblanceolate, apex acuminate to caudate-acuminate, base acute to cuneate, margin serrate, coriaceous, glabrous; midrib canaliculate above; secondary_nerves 9-12 pairs; tertiary_nerves reticulo-percurrent. |
Flowers : | Inflorescence condensed spikes; flowers sessile. |
Fruit& seed : | Drupe, ellipsoid, ca. 3 x 1.5 cm, white; seed shallowly furrowed. |