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| Habit : | Trees up to 5 m tall. |
| Trunk & Bark : | Bark greyish, usually smooth. |
| Branches and Branchlets : | Branchlets terete, subterete with plenty of lenticels, glabrous, canaliculate. |
| Exudates : | Whitish sap from the cut end of leaves and twigs. |
| Leaves : | Leaves simple, alternate or subopposite, spiral; stipules caducous; petiole 0.5-1.5 cm long, glabrous, canaliculate; lamina 6-19 x 2.5-8 cm, variable in shape from narrow elliptic to ovate, apex bluntly acute to acuminate, base asymmetric or rounded to acute, margin entire, chartaceous, glabrous; midrib flat above; secondary_nerves 5-8 pairs, lowest pair opposite and acute in angle; tertiary_nerves broadly reticulo-percurrent. |
| Inflorescence / Flower : | Flowers unisexual, monoecious; male flowers in terminal slender racemes; female flowers few at the base of the male racemes. |
| Fruit and Seed : | Capsule, ellipsoid or subglobose, deeply 3 lobed; seeds 3. |