Botanical descriptions Ecology Distribution Literatures
| Habit : | Tall trees, buttressed, up to 35 m tall. |
| Trunk & Bark : | Bark greyish, smooth; blaze cream. |
| Branches and branchlets : | Young branchlets terete, glabrous or subpubescent. |
| Exudates : | Latex white. |
| Leaves : | Leaves simple, alternate, spiral; stipules to 1 cm long, ovate -lanceolate, silky pubescent, caducous and leaving annular scar; petiole 0.8-3 cm long, canaliculate, glabrous; lamina 6-18 x3-8 cm, narrow elliptic-oblong, lanceolate or oblanceolate, apex acuminate to caudate-acuminate, base acute, margin slightly undulate, chartaceous or thinly coriaceous, glabrous, drying green above, brown beneath; midrib flat above; secondary_nerves 8-13 pairs, prominent; tertiary_nerves reticulate or admedially ramified. |
| Inflorescence / Flower : | Inflorescence syconia, axillary and on leafless twigs, paired or solitary, 0.8-1.5 cm across, subpyriform; flowers unisexual. |
| Fruit and Seed : | Syconium, in axillary pairs, globose, red, glabrous; peduncle 2.5 cm long; achenes smooth. |