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| Habit : | Trees up to 15 m tall. |
| Trunk & Bark : | Bark smooth, brownish grey; blaze light orange. |
| Branches and Branchlets : | Branchlets stout with scars of fallen leaves and stipules, glabrous. |
| Exudates : | Apical buds exudes yellowish resin. |
| Leaves : | Leaves simple, alternate, spiral, clustered at twig ends; stipules ovate, caducous; petiole 1-2.5 cm long, planoconvex in cross section; lamina 12-26 (-50) x 3-7.5 cm, long oblanceolate, apex bluntly acuminate, base cuneate and decurrent, margin entire, coriaceous, drying brownish; midrib stout, distinctly raised on both surface; secondary_nerves 12-18 pairs, impressed above; tertiary_nerves slender and closely_horizontally_percurrent. |
| Inflorescence / Flower : | Inflorescence axillary spikes; flowers unisexual, dioecious; male flowers sessile, 3-5 together within a bract; female flowers solitary within a bract. |
| Fruit and Seed : | Capsule, trilocular, to 1 cm across; seeds 1 per locule. |