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| Habit : | Tall trees, up to 35 m tall. |
| Trunk & Bark : | Outer bark yellowish, with strong boat shape fissures; inner bark fibrous; blaze reddish. |
| Branches and Branchlets : | Branchlets quadrangular, glabrous. |
| Exudates : | Latex watery turning yellowish, not profuse. |
| Leaves : | Leaves simple, opposite, decussate; petiole 0.8-2.5 cm long, planoconvex in cross section, glabrescent; lamina 5-9 x 2-4 cm, elliptic-lanceolate, apex acute to acuminate, base usually attenuate, sometimes acute, coriaceous; secondary_nerves many, close, parallel, nearly right angle to midrib, terminating at thick margin. |
| Inflorescence / Flower : | Flowers white, fragrant, in panicles. |
| Fruit and Seed : | Drupe, ellipsoid, apiculate, to 3.7 cm long, 1- seeded. |