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| Habit : | Trees up to 12 m tall. |
| Trunk & Bark : | Trunk fluted; bark greyish, smooth, sparsely lenticellate; blaze light orange. |
| Branches and Branchlets : | Branchlets stout, terete, glabrous. |
| Leaves : | Leaves simple, alternate, distichous; stipules ovate to oblong, 0.7 cm long, caducous; petiole 0.4-1 cm long, stout, planoconvex in cross section, pubescent when young; lamina 12-30 x 5-11 cm, oblong to elliptic-oblong, apex abruptly shortly acuminate, base rounded, margin entire or distantly serrate, glabrous, coriaceous; midrib flat above; secondary_nerves 6-10 pairs, strong; tertiary_nerves strongly and broadly reticulate. |
| Inflorescence / Flower : | Flower unisexual, dioecious, in axillary or lateral clusters, often on old wood, sessile. |
| Fruit and Seed : | Drupe, subglobose, to 2.5 cm across, densely rufous hirsute, sessile; seeds 2. |