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| Habit : | Trees, up to 8 m tall. |
| Trunk & Bark : | Bark brownish, lenticellate; blaze pink. |
| Branches and Branchlets : | Branchlets terete, glabrous. |
| Leaves : | Leaves simple, alternate, spiral; stipules in pairs, caducous and leaving scar; petiole to 2 cm, swollen at both ends; lamina to 15 × 4 cm, variable, elliptic-lanceolate to oblanceolate, apex acute, base attenuate, subcoriaceous; midrib raised above; secondary_nerves 6-12 pairs; tertiary_nerves broadly reticulate. |
| Inflorescence / Flower : | Flowers unisexual, dioecious; male flowers in axillary clusters, short pedicellate, petals white, disk yellow; female solitary, axillary, long pedicellate, petals yellowish and small, disk yellow. |
| Fruit and Seed : | Capsule, compressed, globose, 2 × 3.2 cm, woody, long pedicellate; seeds 2 per cell. |