Botanical descriptions Ecology Distribution Literature
| Habit : | Trees ca. 20 m tall. |
| Trunk\bark : | Bark grey, smooth, lenticellate; blaze whitish with purplish speckles. |
| Branchlets : | Young branchlets terete, tawny pubescent. |
| Leaves : | Leaves simple, alternate, distichous; stipules lateral, caducous and leaving scar; petiole up to 0.8 cm long, canaliculate above, pubescent; lamina 3.5-10 x 1.2-4 cm, ovate -lanceolate, apex acuminate, base asymmetric, margin serrate, membranous, pubescent beneath; 3-nerved at base; midrib flat or slightly raised above; secondary_nerves ca. 4 pairs; tertiary_nerves distantly horizontally percurrent. |
| Flowers : | Inflorescence axillary cymes; flowers polygamous; pedicels up to 1 cm long. |
| Fruit& seed : | Drupe; seed one. |