Botanical descriptions Ecology Distribution Literature
| Habit : | Trees up to 15 m tall. |
| Trunk\bark : | Bark brown, smooth, lenticellate; blaze reddish. |
| Branchlets : | Young branchlets terete, lenticellate, densely pubescent. |
| Leaves : | Leaves simple, alternate, spiral, sometimes appears to be crowded at apex; petiole 1.8-3.5 cm long, planoconvex in cross section, pubescent, swollen at base; lamina 7-21 x 2-8 cm, narrow elliptic - oblong to elliptic - lanceolate, apex acute to acuminate, base acute to cuneate, margin entire, sometimes distantly toothed; coriaceous, drying brown, tomentose on midrib and nerves above, pubescent beneath; midrib slightly canaliculate above; secondary nerves 7-18 pairs, slightly impressed above, often with hairy domatia at their axils beneath; tertiary_nerves coarsely reticulate or reticulo-percurrent. |
| Flowers : | Inflorescence panicles, terminal, densely pubescent; flowers sessile; bracts present. |
| Fruit& seed : | Drupe, globose; seed one, rugose. |