Botanical descriptions Ecology Distribution Status: Literatures
| Habit : | Trees, often buttressed, up to 20 m tall, with stilt roots and pneumatophores or knee roots. |
| Trunk & Bark : | Bark purplish black, lenticellate; blaze cream. |
| Branches and branchlets : | Branchlets terete, stout, rusty tomentose. |
| Exudates : | Sap red from cut end of bark, profuse. |
| Leaves : | Leaves simple, alternate, distichous; petiole 2-4 cm long, stout, canaliculate, tomentose when young, later glabrous; lamina 20-60 x10-15 cm, elliptic-oblong, apex acute with blunt tip or acuminate, base rounded or subtruncate, margin entire, thickly coriaceous, glossy above, densely rusty tomentose beneath, later glabrous; midrib raised above; secondary_nerves 12-18 pairs, impressed above; tertiary_nerves obscure or percurrent when visible. |
| Inflorescence / Flower : | Flowers unisexual, dioecious, urceolate; male flowers clusters of 10-20 flowers on woody peduncle, subumbellate; female flowers 2 or 3 in axillary fascicles. |
| Fruit and Seed : | Capsule, 10.5 x 5-7, oblong-ovoid, densely rusty tomentose; seed one, cylindrical, covered with bright orange-red lacerated aril. |