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| Habit : | Trees, up to 15 m tall. |
| Trunk & Bark : | Bark grey, smooth; blaze light orange. |
| Branches and Branchlets : | Branchlets terete, pubescent, with annular scars of caducous stipules; apical bud covered by sericeous lanceolate stipules. |
| Leaves : | Leaves simple, alternate, spiral; petiole up to 2 cm long, canaliculate, pubescent; lamina 5-11 x 2.2-4.8 cm, elliptic to elliptic-lanceolate, apex acute to slightly acuminate with blunt tip, base acute to attenuate, margin entire, subcoriaceous, glabrous, white glaucous beneath; midrib slightly canaliculate; secondary_nerves 10-13 pairs; tertiary_nerves closely reticulate. |
| Inflorescence / Flower : | Flowers solitary, axillary, large, white or cream. |
| Fruit and Seed : | Follicles, warty, arranged as spike, dehiscing dorsally; seed 1, scarlet. |