Botanical descriptions Ecology Distribution Literatures
| Habit : | Large buttressed, deciduous trees up to 50 m tall. |
| Trunk & Bark : | Bark greyish-white, smooth, pustular lenticels in vertical rows; blaze brownish. |
| Branches and branchlets : | Young branchlets terete, tomentose, later glabrous. |
| Exudates : | Latex watery or milky. |
| Leaves : | Leaves simple, alternate, distichous, stipules small, connate, caducous, leaving scar; petiole 0.3-0.8 cm long, pubescent; lamina to 6.5-15 x 2.5-5 cm, elliptic-oblong, apex obtusely acuminate, base rounded or cordate, margin entire or distantly crenulate, young leaves hairy on both sides, later glabrous and scabrous beneath; midrib raised above; secondary_nerves 8-10 pairs; tertiary_nerves reticulo-percurrent. |
| Inflorescence / Flower : | Flowers unisexual; male flowers greenish yellow, in axillary peduncled spikes; female flowers solitary axillary. |
| Fruit and Seed : | Drupe, fleshy, pyriform or obovoid, scarlet; seed 1. |