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| Habit : | Large trees, buttressed, up to 35 m tall. |
| Trunk & Bark : | Trunk with clear bole; bark grey, smooth; blaze brown. |
| Branches and Branchlets : | Branchlets subterete, glabrous. |
| Leaves : | Leaves simple, opposite or subopposite and alternate; petiole 1.3-1.9 cm long, slightly canaliculate above; lamina 5-11 x 2.2-5 cm narrow elliptic-oblong or lanceolate, apex acute to gradually acuminate, base asymmetricaly attenuate or rounded, margin entire, coriaceous, pubescent when young and later glabrous, midrib nearly flat; secondary_nerves 12-15, gradually curved; tertiary_nerves minutely reticulo-percurrent. |
| Inflorescence / Flower : | Inflorescence axillary, panicled spikes, inflorescence axis and pedicel rusty puberulous; flowers white. |
| Fruit and Seed : | Drupe, 3.8 x 1.3 cm, ovoid, covered with greyish round spots, 1-seeded. |