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| Habit : | Large trees, up to 35 m tall. |
| Trunk & Bark : | Bark rough. |
| Branches and Branchlets : | Branchlets stout, glabrous, lenticelled. |
| Exudates : | Latex black. |
| Leaves : | Leaves simple, alternate, spiral, clustered at twig ends; petiole 1-2 cm long, flat above with a pair of often caducous spurs; lamina 10-27.5 x 2.5-8.5 cm oblanceolate, apex shortly acuminate to obtuse or rounded, base cuneate to decurrent, margin revolute, coriaceous, glabrous, drying brown beneath; midrib raised above; secondary_nerves 9-14 pairs, gradually curved; tertiary_nerves reticulate. |
| Inflorescence / Flower : | Inflorescence terminal panicle, dark purple-brown tomentose; flowers polygamous. |
| Fruit and Seed : | Drupe, obovoid, wholly enclosed in hypocarp, 1-seeded. |