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| Habit : | Trees up to 30 m tall. |
| Trunk & Bark : | Bark brown, smooth; blaze orange. |
| Branches and Branchlets : | Branchlets stout, terete with lenticels. |
| Exudates : | Exudates red sap from the cut end of branchlets. |
| Leaves : | Leaves simple, alternate, spiral, usually at the end of the twigs; petiole 4-10 cm long, terete, glabrous, swollen at both ends, pair of glands present at the junction of lamina above; lamina 15-32 x 4-11 cm, usually narrow elliptic to oblanceolate, apex acuminate, base cuneate, margin serrate, coriaceous, glabrous, drying brown; midrib raised above; secondary_nerves 10-12 pairs; tertiary_nerves slender, obliquely_percurrent. |
| Inflorescence / Flower : | Flowers unisexual, dioecious, in terminal or lateral panicled pendulous racemes. |
| Fruit and Seed : | Capsule, globose, 3-ribbed, brown tomentose. |