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| Habit : | Trees up to 10 m tall. |
| Trunk & Bark : | Bark brownish, fissured; blaze pinkish. |
| Branches and Branchlets : | Branchlets terete, brown tomentose; apical buds covered by imbricate hairy ovate scales. |
| Leaves : | Leaves simple, alternate, spiral, clustered at twig ends; petiole to 2 cm long, canaliculate, glabrous; lamina to 7.5-13 x 3.5-5.5 cm, elliptic-oblong, apex apiculate, base acute to rounded, margin reflexed, coriaceous, glabrous above, furfuraceous beneath; nerves and reticulations impressed above; midrib canaliculate above; secondary_nerves ca. 18 pairs; tertiary_nerves obscurely visible. |
| Inflorescence / Flower : | Flowers in terminal fascicles or pseudocorymbs, crimson red, zygomorphic. |
| Fruit and Seed : | Capsule woody, oblong, up to 2 cm long, septicidally dehiscing; seeds numerous, minute, ellipsoid, winged. |