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| Habit : | Large trees, up to 35 m tall. |
| Trunk & Bark : | Bark smooth; blaze light brown. |
| Branches and Branchlets : | Branchlets minutely pubescent when young. |
| Exudates : | Latex acrid, watery, gradually turning black. |
| Leaves : | Leaves simple, alternate, spiral, clustered at twig ends; petiole 0.2-0.7 cm long, stout, flat above, glabrous; lamina 8-28 x 2.2-7 cm long, oblanceolate, apex acuminate with blunt tip, base auriculate, subcoriaceous; midrib flat or slightly impressed above; nerves and reticulation raised on both surface; secondary_nerves 7-18 pairs, nearly straight and curved near margin, moderate in angle; tertiary_nerves reticulate. |
| Inflorescence / Flower : | Inflorescence axillary panicle, 7-15 cm long; flowers polygamous. |
| Fruit and Seed : | Drupe, obliquely obovate, black, seated on fleshy obconic hypocarp, 1-seeded. |