Botanical descriptions Ecology Distribution Literature
| Habit : | Buttressed trees, up to 30 m tall. |
| Trunk\bark : | Trunk fluted; bark brown, flaky; blaze reddish. |
| Branchlets : | Young branchlets stout, scaly, tomentose. |
| Leaves : | Leaves simple, alternate, spiral, clustered at twig ends; stipules 0.3 cm long, scaly, lanceolate or subulate, lateral, caducous and leaving scar; petiole stout 0.6-2.5 cm long, terete, scaly, swollen at both ends; lamina 7.5-13 (-21) x 2.6-6.5 cm, ovate to ovate - lanceolate, apex acute to narrowly acuminate, base rounded - subcordate, margin entire, thinly coriaceous, with silvery lepidote scales beneath, glabrous above; midrib raised above; basally 3-nerved basal; secondary_nerves 3-6 pairs (apart from lateral ribs) ascending; tertiary_nerves reticulo-percurrent, sometimes obscure. |
| Flowers : | Inflorescence axillary panicles; flowers unisexual, small, cream colored. |
| Fruit& seed : | Samaroid, brown, 3.6 (-6.4) cm long; seed one. |