Botanical descriptions Ecology Distribution Literature
| Habit : | Deciduous trees, up to 20 m tall. |
| Trunk\bark : | Bark dark grey, fissured; blaze reddish. |
| Branchlets : | Young branchlets terete, minutely pubescent. |
| Leaves : | Leaves simple, opposite, decussate; stipule lanceolate, interpetiolar, caducous and leaving scar, glabrous; petiole ca. 1.2-2.2 cm long, planoconvex in cross section, glabrous; lamina 14.5-21 x 7.5-12.5 cm, broadly ovate to elliptic-ovate, apex acute to shortly acuminate, base acute-attenuate to truncate, margin entire, chartaceous, glabrous; midrib raised above; secondary_nerves ca. 10 pairs; tertiary_nerves broadly obliquely percurrent. |
| Flowers : | Inflorescence axillary or terminal racemes; flowers subsessile. |
| Fruit& seed : | Capsule, elliptic, pendulous, 2-valved; seeds many, narrowly winged. |