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| Habit : | Trees up to 5 m tall. |
| Trunk & Bark : | Bark brownish, flaky; blaze light yellow. |
| Branches and Branchlets : | Branchlets terete, pubescent when young. |
| Leaves : | Leaves simple, alternate, spiral; stipules in pairs, caducous and leaving scar; petiole to 1 cm; lamina to 16.5 × 2 cm, linear-lanceolate, apex acute, base cuneate, margin entire, subcoriaceous, glandular scales beneath; midrib raised above; secondary_nerves 15-19 pairs; tertiary_nerves reticulate. |
| Inflorescence / Flower : | Inflorescence in axillary spikes; flowers reddish, unisexual, dioecious. |
| Fruit and Seed : | Capsule, 3-2 valved cocci; seeds 3, ovoid. |