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| Habit : | Trees up to 20 m tall. |
| Trunk & Bark : | Bark smooth, lenticellate; blaze orange-red. |
| Branches and Branchlets : | Branchlets stout, angular, glabrous, drying yellowish. |
| Exudates : | Latex cream colored. |
| Leaves : | Leaves simple, opposite, decussate; petiole stout, sheathing at base, glabrous, planoconvex, 1-2.5 cm long; lamina 7-15 x 3-7 cm, broadly obovate, sometimes elliptic, apex rounded, sometimes retuse, base attenuate, margin revolute, thickly coriaceous; secondary_nerves many closely parallel and terminates at thick margin; latex ducts visible beneath when dry. |
| Inflorescence / Flower : | Flowers dioecious; male in clusters; female flowers terminal, solitary. |
| Fruit and Seed : | Berry, ellipsoid, to 6.5 x 5 cm, echinate; 1-3 seeded. |