Botanical descriptions Ecology Distribution Literature
| Habit : | Large deciduous trees, buttressed, up to 30 m tall. |
| Trunk\bark : | Bark grey, longitudinally arranged lenticels; blaze yellowish cream. |
| Branchlets : | Young branchlets stout, terete, dense golden-brown stellate pubescent, later glabrous. |
| Leaves : | Leaves simple, alternate, spiral, clutered at twig ends; stipules lateral, caducous and leaving scar; petiole 5-10 cm long, terete, swollen at apex, glabrous; lamina 10-20 (-30) x 7.6-14 (-20) cm, broadly ovate or oblong-ovate, apex acute or slightly acuminate, base cordate or subtruncate, margin entire or slightly undulate, thinly coriaceous, glabrous; midrib raised above; 5-nerved at base; secondary_nerves 3-4 pairs ascending, raised above; tertiary_nerves distantly reticulo-percurrent. |
| Flowers : | Inflorescence short axillary panicle, on old wood, rusty brown tomentose; flowers polygamous. |
| Fruit& seed : | Follicles of 3-5, to 12.5 x 9 cm, globose or ovoid, woody; seeds ca. 30, winged. |