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| Habit : | Trees up to 15 m tall. |
| Trunk & Bark : | Bark grey, smooth, minutely lenticellate; blaze dull orange. |
| Branches and Branchlets : | Branchlets terete, glabrous. |
| Leaves : | Leaves simple, alternate, spiral; stipules caducous; petiole 2-3 cm long, shallowly canaliculate, swollen at both ends, glabrous; lamina 8-20 x 3-8 cm, narrow-elliptic to obovate, apex abruptly acuminate, base acute to cuneate; margin remotely serrate, subcoriaceous, shining above, glabrous, pair of glands present at the junction of lamina and petiole above; secondary_nerves 5-6 pairs with hairy domatia in the axils; tertiary_nerves reticulo-percurrent. |
| Inflorescence / Flower : | Flowers unisexual; male flowers in long axillary spicate racemes; female flower solitary, axillary, peduncle elongated. |
| Fruit and Seed : | Capsule, usually bilobed sometimes trilobed, with persistent style and stigma; seeds 1 per locule. |