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| Habit : | Trees up to 30 m tall. |
| Trunk & Bark : | Trunk fluted; bark whitish grey, smooth; blaze orange. |
| Branches and Branchlets : | Branchlets terete, glabrous. |
| Leaves : | Leaves simple, alternate, distichous; stipules ovate, caducous; petiole 0.5-1.3 cm long, canaliculate, glabrous; lamina 8-13 x 3-6.5 cm, narrow elliptic, apex bluntly acuminate, base acute and slightly asymmetric, margin entire, coriaceous, shining, glabrous; midrib flat above; secondary_nerves 7-12 pairs; tertiary_nerves reticulo-percurrent. |
| Inflorescence / Flower : | Flowers unisexual, dioecious; male flowers greenish white in axillary cluster; female flower solitary, long pedicellate. |
| Fruit and Seed : | Drupe, obovoid, to 2.5 cm long; 1-seeded, arillate. |