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| Habit : | Large, buttressed, deciduous tree, up to 40 m tall. |
| Trunk & Bark : | Bark greyish white, smooth; blaze cream. |
| Branches and Branchlets : | Branchlets terete, lenticellate. |
| Leaves : | Leaves simple, alternate, spiral, leaves crowded at twig ends; petiole to 10 cm long, pubescent; lamina to 12 x 10 cm, broadly ovate to rounded, acuminate, base cordate, irregularly dentate, subcoriaceous, glabrous above, pubescent beneath, 3-5_nerved_at_base. |
| Inflorescence / Flower : | Flowers unisexuals, dioecious; male flowers in pubescent panicles, greenish-yellow, subsessile; female flowers sessile, in spikes. |
| Fruit and Seed : | Capsule, faintly 8-ribbed, glandular, urceolate, 0.4 cm long; seeds many, minute. |