Botanical descriptions Ecology Distribution Literatures
| Habit : | Deciduous trees, up to 18 m tall. |
| Trunk & Bark : | Bark pale, greenish, lenticellate. |
| Branches and branchlets : | Young branchlets terete, with stout white scabrid hairs. |
| Exudates : | Latex watery, profuse. |
| Leaves : | Leaves simple, alternate, spiral; stipule in pairs, lateral, caducous and leaving scar; petiole 1-6 cm long, canaliculate, with stout white scabrid hairs; lamina 5.5-17 x 3-7.5 cm, broadly elliptic to obovate, apex abruptly acuminate, base rounded or acute-cuneate; margin denticulate or sinuate to crenate (rarely lobed), scabrid on both surface, coriaceous; 3-nerved at base; midrib slightly raised above; secondary_nerves 3-6 pairs, prominent; tertiary_nerves broadly percurrent. |
| Inflorescence / Flower : | Inflorescence syconia, axillary, solitary, scabrid; flowers unisexual; peduncle to 1.5 cm. |
| Fruit and Seed : | Syconium, obovoid, up to 1.5 cm long, yellow or purple when ripe; achene oblong. |