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| Habit : | Large trees, up to 40 m tall. |
| Trunk & Bark : | Bark smooth, yellowish white, bright yellow when scrap; blaze reddish. |
| Branches and Branchlets : | Branchlets terete, glabrous. |
| Leaves : | Leaves simple, usually opposite, sometimes alternate; petiole 0.8-2.5 cm long, terete; lamina 8-26 x 4-10 cm, elliptic-oblong, apex acute to acuminate, base rounded, margin entire, chartaceous or subcoriaceous; secondary_nerves 6-13 pairs; tertiary_nerves horizontally reticulo-percurrent. |
| Inflorescence / Flower : | Inflorescence panicles; flower petals dull red, disk bright red. |
| Fruit and Seed : | Capsule, 3-4 angled, elongated; seeds many, white, papery winged. |