Botanical descriptions Ecology Distribution status Literature
| Habit : | Trees up to 25 m tall. |
| Trunk\bark : | Bark grey, smooth, flaky when mature; blaze pink. |
| Branchlets : | Branches with architecture of “Aubreville_model”; young branchlets terete, ferruginously tomentose when young, later glabrous. |
| Exudates : | Latex white, profuse. |
| Leaves : | Leaves simple, alternate, spiral, clustered at twig ends; petiole up to 2 cm long, stout, terete to planoconvex in cross section, tomentose when young; lamina 10-21 4.5-7 cm, obovate, oblanceolate, apex acuminate with blunt tip, base cuneate-attenuate, margin entire, coriaceous, black when dry above, brown beneath, glabrous; midrib raised above; secondary nerves 8-10 pairs, looped near margin; tertiary nerves broadly reticulate. |
| Flowers : | Flowers in axillary clusters or solitary, white; pedicel up to 4 cm long. |
| Fruit& seed : | Berry, 3.5 cm long, ellipsoid, beaked; seed one. |