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| Habit : | Small trees, up to 8 m tall. |
| Trunk & Bark : | Bark thin, brown, lenticellate; blaze greenish. |
| Branches and Branchlets : | Older branchlets lenticellate, young twigs covered by shiny peltate_scales. |
| Leaves : | Leaves simple, opposite, decussate; petiole 0.7-1.5 cm long, canaliculate above, peltate_scaly; lamina 4-10 x 2-4.5 cm, usually elliptic sometimes narrow obovate, apex acute to acuminate, base acute, margin revolute, coriaceous, peltate_scaly beneath; midrib canaliculate above; secondary_nerves 5-8 pairs, slightly impressed above; tertiary_nerves obscurely reticulo-percurrent. |
| Inflorescence / Flower : | Inflorescence compound umbel and corymbiform; flower white. |
| Fruit and Seed : | Drupe, oblong-ellipsoid, peltate_scaly, 1 cm long; 1-seeded. |