Botanical descriptions Ecology Distribution Literature
| Habit : | Large trees up to 28 m tall. |
| Trunk\bark : | Bark brown, large flaky or exfoliating; blaze outer bark red and inner cream. |
| Branchlets : | Young branchlets slender, terete, tawny pubescent and stellate hairy. |
| Leaves : | Leaves simple, alternate, distichous; stipules lateral, with two linear subulate appendages, densely stellate tomentose, caducous; petiole ca. 0.1 cm long, terete, stellate tomentose; lamina 4.5-10 x 1.5-3 cm, narrow oblong-lanceolate, apex acuminate, base asymmetric often subpeltate, margin entire, chartaceous, tawny pubescent and stellate hairy; midrib flat above; 3-nerved at base; secondary_nerves 5-7 pairs, ascending; tertiary_nerves reticulo-percurrent. |
| Flowers : | Flowers white, solitary, axillary; pedicels up to 0.5 cm long. |
| Fruit& seed : | Capsule brown, 5-angled, 5 x 1.3 cm, glabrous; seeds winged at one end. |