Botanical descriptions Ecology Distribution Literatures
| Habit : | Evergreen trees up to 25 m tall. |
| Trunk & Bark : | Bark dark brown, lenticellate; blaze reddish brown. |
| Branches and branchlets : | Branches verticillate and right angles to main trunk; young branchlets terete, rufous pubescent. |
| Exudates : | Sap reddish from cut end of bark, not profuse. |
| Leaves : | Leaves simple, alternate, distichous; petiole 1-2 cm long, slightly canaliculate, subpubescent when young; lamina 11-26 x 4-10 cm, usually narrow oblong or oblong, sometimes lanceolate, apex abruptly or gradually acuminate, base usually rounded, sometimes slightly attenuate, margin entire, coriaceous, shinning above, glaucous beneath; midrib flat above; secondary_nerves 7-14 pairs, ascending; tertiary_nerves obscure, if visible laxly percurrent. |
| Inflorescence / Flower : | Flowers unisexual, dioecious; male flowers yellowish, in axillary panicles, fulvous pubescent; female flowers larger in axillary racemes. |
| Fruit and Seed : | Capsule, globose, to 3.2 cm across, glabrous; seed one, globose, pale brown with laciniate aril. |