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| Habit : | Trees up to 25 m tall. |
| Trunk & Bark : | Bark smooth, grey; blaze white with orange speckles. |
| Branches and Branchlets : | Branchlets slender, terete, glabrous. |
| Leaves : | Leaves simple, alternate, distichous; stipules caducous; petiole 0.5-1.3 cm long, glabrous; planoconvex in cross section; lamina 7.5-13 x 3.6- 7.6 cm, elliptic, apex abruptly acuminate, base acute or rounded to subattenuate, margin crenate, chartaceous, glabrous; midrib flat above; secondary_nerves 6-8 pairs, gradually curved; tertiary_nerves reticulo-percurrent. |
| Inflorescence / Flower : | Inflorescence long, slender spikes with interrupted clusters of small flowers; flowers generally greenish white, sometimes few clusters crimson red in the same spike. |
| Fruit and Seed : | Capsule; seeds small, many, oblong or angular. |