Botanical descriptions Ecology Distribution Literatures
| Habit : | Deciduous trees, up to 25 m tall. |
| Trunk & Bark : | Bark reddish brown with large irregular peeling scales; blaze purplish. |
| Branches and branchlets : | Branchlets terete, glabrous, lenticellate. |
| Leaves : | Leaves simple, alternate, distichous; stipules lateral, lanceolate; petiole 0.5-0.8 cm long, planoconvex in cross section, glabrous; lamina 5.3-13 × 3.5-6 cm, elliptic, elliptic-ovate to obovate, apex acuminate with blunt tip, base asymmetric, margin entire, shining above, glaucous beneath, glabrous, membranous; midrib slightly raised above; secondary_nerves 6-10 pairs, slender; tertiary_nerves broadly reticulate. |
| Inflorescence / Flower : | Flowers unisexual, dioecious, green; male flowers fascicled, axillary, pedicels ca. 0.5 cm long; female flowers solitary or few together, pedicels 1-2 cm long. |
| Fruit and Seed : | Capsule, 0.8 cm across, depressed globose, 3-lobed; seeds 3, subtrigonus; arillate. |