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| Habit : | Trees up to 5 m tall. |
| Trunk & Bark : | Bark smooth, pale brown. |
| Branches and Branchlets : | Branchlets terete, glabrous. |
| Exudates : | Whitish sap from the cut end of leaves and twigs. |
| Leaves : | Leaves simple, alternate or subopposite or sometimes spiral; stipules caducous; petiole 0.5-4.5 cm long, canaliculate, glabrous; lamina 5-15 x 2.5-4.5 cm, elliptic to obovate to oblanceolate, apex acuminate or caudate-acuminate, base gradually acute to cuneate, margin entire, subcoriaceous, glabrous; midrib raised above; secondary_nerves 6-8 pairs; tertiary_nerves admedially_ramified. |
| Inflorescence / Flower : | Flowers unisexual; male flowers in slender pedunculate umbels; female flowers terminal fascicles. |
| Fruit and Seed : | Capsule, globose, deeply 3-lobed; fruiting_calyx erect; seeds 3. |