Botanical descriptions Ecology Distribution Literature
| Habit : | Trees up to 15 m tall. |
| Trunk\bark : | Bark grey brown, lenticellate; blaze purplish red. |
| Branchlets : | Young branchlets terete, lenticellate, glabrescent. |
| Leaves : | Leaves simple, alternate, spiral; petiole 1.5-3.5 cm long, planoconvex in cross section, glabrescent when young, swollen at base; lamina 10-30 (50) x 3-10 (-18) cm, oblanceolate to narrow obovate, apex shortly acuminate, base cuneate - attenuate, margin entire, sometimes remotely dentate in saplings, chartaceous, puberulous when young, later glabrous, drying brown; midrib nearly flat above; secondary_nerves 14-18 pairs, often with hairy domatia in their axills; tertiary_nerves coarsely reticulate or obliquely reticulo-percurrent. |
| Flowers : | Inflorescence terminal and axillary panicles, pubescent; flowers sessile; bracts absent. |
| Fruit& seed : | Drupe, globose, to 0.5 cm across; seed one, rugose. |