Botanical descriptions Ecology Distribution Literatures
| Habit : | Deciduous trees, with few aerial roots. |
| Trunk & Bark : | Bole fluted; bark brownish, lenticellate; blaze pinkish. |
| Branches and branchlets : | Branchlets subterete, glabrous, lenticellate. |
| Exudates : | Latex white, profuse. |
| Leaves : | Leaves simple, alternate, spiral; stipules ca. 1 cm long, pubescent, caducous and leaving annular scar; petiole 3.7-6 cm long, canaliculate, glabrous; lamina 5-17.5 x 3-10 cm, elliptic, oblong, oblong-ovate, apex acuminate with blunt tip, base truncate, rounded or retuse, margin entire, glabrous, coriaceous; basally 3-nerved from base; midrib raised above; secondary_nerves 5-15 pairs, looped near margin; tertiary_nerves broadly reticulate. |
| Inflorescence / Flower : | Inflorescence syconia, axillary, paired, 1-1.5 cm across, globose, often obconical; flowers unisexual. |
| Fruit and Seed : | Syconium, pink when ripe; achenes smooth. |