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| Habit : | Large trees, up to 35 m tall. |
| Trunk & Bark : | Bark fissured; blaze pink. |
| Branches and Branchlets : | Branchlets stout, glabrous. |
| Exudates : | Latex black. |
| Leaves : | Leaves simple, alternate, spiral, clustered at twig ends; petiole 5-8 cm long, stout, terete, swollen at base, glabrous; lamina 29-60 x11-17 cm, wide obovate, apex rounded, base acute, margin revolute, coriaceous, glabrous; midrib flat above, stout beneath; secondary_nerves 14-18 pairs, straight, prominent, raised above, curving at margin; tertiary_nerves reticulate. |
| Inflorescence / Flower : | Inflorescence axillary and terminal panicle, glabrous; flowers polygamous. |
| Fruit and Seed : | Drupe, obliquely oblong, black up to 3 cm long, seated on fleshy hypocarp, 1-seeded. |