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| Habit : | Trees up to 12 m tall. |
| Trunk & Bark : | Bark brownish, small lenticellate; blaze red. |
| Branches and Branchlets : | Branchlets stout, subglabrous, glaucous. |
| Exudates : | Exudates resinous red sap from cut ends of branches and branchlets. |
| Leaves : | Leaves simple, alternate, spiral; stipules 1.2 cm long, lanceolate, caducous; petiole 7-26 cm long, terete, subglabrous, swollen at base; lamina 13-32 x 8-18 cm, distinctly peltate, broadly ovate to orbiculate, apex acuminate or sometimes acute, margin entire or minutely denticulate, subcoriaceous, glabrous above, pubescent and resinous yellow glands beneath; nerves up to 10, radiating from the centre; tertiary_nerves obliquely_percurrent. |
| Inflorescence / Flower : | Flower unisexual, dioecious; inflorescence axillary panicles with straight branches, bracts broadly ovate, dentate without apical glands; male flowers in clusters per bract; female flowers few per bract. |
| Fruit and Seed : | Capsule, globose, covered with glandular scales, 1 or 2-valved cocci; seeds globose, 1 per cocci. |