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| Habit : | Large trees up to 60 m tall. |
| Trunk & Bark : | Bark smooth, grey; blaze brown. |
| Branches and Branchlets : | Branchlets terete, glabrous with annular scars formed by fallen stipules; young branchlets stellate pubescent. |
| Leaves : | Leaves simple, alternate, spiral and clustered at twig ends; stipules in younger stages lanceolate, to 5.5 cm long, densely stellate tomentose; petiole to 3 cm long, slightly swollen at base, stellate pubescent in young trees; lamina in mature trees 8-12 x 4-6 cm elliptic or narrow ovate, apex acute or slightly acuminate, base rounded, margin entire, subcoriaceous, glabrous; midrib slightly canaliculate above; secondary_nerves straight, nearly parallel; tertiary_nerves obliquely_percurrent. |
| Inflorescence / Flower : | Inflorescence 3-8 flowered racemes, axillary; flowers white, fragrant. |
| Fruit and Seed : | Nut, covered by smooth calyx tubes with 3 short and 2 accrescent_calyx_lobes; seeds 1-2. |