Botanical descriptions Ecology Distribution Literature
| Habit : | Deciduous trees up to 15 m tall. |
| Trunk\bark : | Bark grey, smooth; blaze cream. |
| Branchlets : | Branches horizontal; young branchlets quadrangular, glabrous. |
| Leaves : | Leaves simple, opposite, decussate; stipules large, obovate with keeled back, interpetiolar, caducous and leaving scar; petioles 1-3 cm long, planoconvex in cross section, glabrous; lamina 10-20 x 4.5-10 cm, ovate, elliptic-ovate, apex acuminate, rarely acute, base truncate to obtuse, margin entire, coriaceous, glabrous beneath; midrib flat above; secondary_nerves up to 12 pairs; tertiary_nerves distantly obliquely percurrent. |
| Flowers : | Inflorescence terminal head; flowers sessile, yellow with purple tinge; calyx lobes elongated. |
| Fruit& seed : | Capsules arranged in globose heads, each with 2-folicular cocci; seeds many, winged. |