Botanical descriptions Ecology Distribution Literature
| Habit : | Deciduous trees up to 25 m tall. |
| Trunk\bark : | Bark grey, scaly. |
| Branchlets : | Branches horizontal; young branchlets quadrangular, glabrous. |
| Leaves : | Leaves simple, opposite, decussate; stipules lanceolate, interpetiolar, caducous and leaving scar; petioles 2-3.5 cm long, planoconvex in cross section, glabrous; lamina 16-28 x 7-13.5 cm, elliptic, elliptic-oblong, apex acuminate, base truncate to obtuse, margin entire, pubescent beneath when young; midrib raised above; secondary_nerves up to 10-14 pairs; tertiary_nerves distantly obliquely percurrent. |
| Flowers : | Inflorescence terminal, globose head; flowers sessile, yellow. |
| Fruit& seed : | Capsule arranged in globose heads, each with 2-folicular cocci; seeds many, angular. |