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| Habit : | Trees, about 30 m tall. |
| Trunk & Bark : | Bark pale brown, flaky; blaze cream. |
| Branches and Branchlets : | Branchlets terete, glabrous. |
| Leaves : | Leaves simple, alternate, spiral; petiole 1.5-2 cm long, glabrous; lamina 10-17 x 2-9 cm, ovate-lanceolate, apex acuminate, base rounded, sometimes subpeltate, coriaceous, glabrous; midrib flat above; secondary_nerves ca. 8 pairs, domatia at the axils of secondary_nerves beneath; tertiary_nerves closely_obliquely_percurrent. |
| Inflorescence / Flower : | Inflorescence axillary panicles, glabrous; flowers cream with petals twisted. |
| Fruit and Seed : | Nut, 1.2-1.5 cm long, ovoid; calyx_accrescent with two enlarged lobes; seed 1. |