Botanical descriptions Ecology Distribution Literatures
| Habit : | Trees up to 20 m tall, often with stilt roots. |
| Trunk & Bark : | Bark brownish, lenticellate, flaky; blaze reddish. |
| Branches and branchlets : | Branches verticillate, usually right angles to the main trunk; branchlets terete, glabrous. |
| Exudates : | Sap red from cut end of bark, profuse. |
| Leaves : | Leaves simple, alternate, distichous; petiole 1.5-4 cm, canaliculate, glabrous; lamina 12-25 x 4-12 cm, variable from narrow oblong to oblong, elliptic to lanceolate, apex acute with blunt tip or obtuse, base acute to rounded, margin entire, thickly coriaceous, shining above, white glaucous beneath; midrib raised above; secondary_nerves 10-18 pairs, impressed above; tertiary_nerves obscure or broadly reticulo-percurrent when visible. |
| Inflorescence / Flower : | Flowers unisexual, dioecious, white; male flowers in axillary short umbels, 10-20 flowered; female flowers in fascicles, sessile. |
| Fruit and Seed : | Capsule, ovoid, 6 x 3 cm, densely tomentose; seed one, ovoid, covered with orange red deeply laciniate aril. |