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| Habit : | Trees, buttressed, often with stilt roots, up to 30 m tall. |
| Trunk & Bark : | Bark brown, lenticellate; blaze pink. |
| Branches and Branchlets : | Branchlets terete, glabrous. |
| Exudates : | Exudates resinous, not profuse. |
| Leaves : | Leaves simple, opposite, decussate; petiole 1-2 cm long, planoconvex in cross section, glabrous; lamina 10-29 x 3-9 cm; elliptic-oblong to lanceolate, apex caudate-acuminate, base acute or nearly attenuate, thickly coriaceous; midrib raised above; secondary_nerves many, slender, sometimes indistinct near margins due to mixing up with tertiary_nerves reticulation, nearly perpendicular to midrib; tertiary_nerves closely reticulate. |
| Inflorescence / Flower : | Inflorescence terminal panicle. |
| Fruit and Seed : | Capsule, globose, 4 cm across, ribbed, beaked, drying dark brown, 1-seeded. |