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| Habit : | Trees up to 18 m tall. |
| Trunk & Bark : | Bark brownish, smooth; blaze orange red. |
| Branches and Branchlets : | Branchlets terete, glabrous, with scars of fallen leaves. |
| Leaves : | Leaves simple, alternate, spiral, clustered at twig ends; stipules small, lanceolate, caducous; petiole 1.2-4 cm long, swollen at both ends, planoconvex, glabrous, with subulate appendage at the junction of lamina; lamina 5.5-12.5 x 2.5-5 cm, elliptic, apex acuminate with blunt tip, base acute, margin serrate, chartaceous, glabrous, red when senescent; midrib slightly raised above; secondary_nerves 5-9 pairs, branched with glabrous domatia at axils beneath; tertiary_nerves reticulo-percurrent; higher order reticulation slender, minute. |
| Inflorescence / Flower : | Inflorescence racemes; flower petals white, laciniate, anthers ciliate. |
| Fruit and Seed : | Drupe, oblong or ovoid to 2.5 cm long; seeds 3-4. |