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| Habit : | Large trees, up to 35 m tall. |
| Trunk & Bark : | Bark finely fissured and pustular. |
| Branches and Branchlets : | Branches with architecture of “Aubreville_model”; branchlets stout, terete, glabrous. |
| Exudates : | Latex white turns to black. |
| Leaves : | Leaves simple, alternate, spiral, clustered at twig ends; petiole 0.8-2.5 cm long with a pair of spurs (nearly glabrous and sometimes caducous), planoconvex in cross section; lamina 10-25 x 2.5-7.6 cm, oblanceolate, apex obtuse to slightly acuminate, base cuneate to decurrent, margin entire, coriaceous, glabrous; midrib raised above; secondary_nerves 10-20 pairs, tertiary_nerves reticulate. |
| Inflorescence / Flower : | Inflorescence axillary or terminal panicles, 12-24 cm long, golden yellow pubescent; flowers polygamous, greenish white. |
| Fruit and Seed : | Drupe, obliquely ovoid, glabrous, rounded at apex, 3 cm long, wholly enclosed in obconic hypocarp, 1-seeded. |