Botanical descriptions Ecology Distribution Literature
| Habit : | Trees up to 20 m tall. |
| Trunk\bark : | Bark brown, smooth; blaze red. |
| Branchlets : | Branches horizontal; young branchlets terete, tawny tomentose and stellate hairy. |
| Leaves : | Leaves simple, alternate, distichous; stipule lateral, caducous and leaving scar; petiole up to 1.5 cm long, tomentose, terete; lamina 11.5-18 (-25.5) x 8.5-13.5 (-17) cm, oblong to pandurate, much variable in sapling, apex acuminate, base cordate, truncate to asymmetric (peltate in young saplings), glabrous above, silvery pubescent beneath, drying brown above, coriaceous; 5-nerved at base; midrib canaliculate above; secondary_nerves 5-9 pairs, impressed above, strong beneath; tertiary_nerves obliquely percurrent. |
| Flowers : | Flowers large, solitary or 2-3 together, axillary, white; bracteoles laciniate; pedicel 0.5 cm long. |
| Fruit& seed : | Capsule, woody, 5-angled, to 7.6 x 3.8 cm, tomentose; seeds compressed, 8-11 in each cell, winged at one end. |