Botanical descriptions Ecology Distribution Literature
| Habit : | Trees up to 20 m tall. |
| Trunk\bark : | Bark grey, irregularly scaly; blaze yellow. |
| Branchlets : | Young branchlets slightly angular, terete when mature, glabrous. |
| Leaves : | Leaves simple, opposite, decussate; stipules large, foliaceous, obovate, interpetiolar, caducous and leaving scar; petioles 1-2 cm long, planoconvex in cross section, glabrous; lamina 8.5-16 x 4-12 cm, elliptic, elliptic-obovate, apex acuminate, base acute to obtuse, margin entire, chartaceous, glabrous beneath; midrib flat above; secondary_nerves 6-8 pairs; tertiary_nerves distantly obliquely percurrent. |
| Flowers : | Inflorescence axillary or terminal, globose head; flowers sessile, purple. |
| Fruit& seed : | Capsule arranged in globose heads, each with 2-folicular cocci; seeds many, flat, winged. |