Botanical descriptions Ecology Distribution status Literature
| Habit : | Trees up to 20 m tall. |
| Trunk\bark : | Bark greyish brown with longitudinally arraned lenticels; blaze red. |
| Branchlets : | Young branchlets slender, terete, densely white tomentose and stellate hairy. |
| Leaves : | Leaves simple, alternate, distichous; stipule lateral, caducous; petiole ca. 0.7 cm long, terete, stellate tomentose when young, later glabrous; lamina 5-14.5 x 2.5-7.5 cm, oblong, obovate or pandurate and irregularly toothed or lobed towards apex, apex acuminate, base asymmetric to cordate to obtuse, margin entire, white tomentose and stellate hairy beneath, coriaceous; 3-5-nerved at base; midrib canaliculate above; secondary_nerves 5-6 pairs, prominent beneath; tertiary_nerves strong and obliquely percurrent. |
| Flowers : | Flowers white, in terminal or axillary fascicles, solitary; bracteoles laciniate; pedicel 0.3 cm long. |
| Fruit& seed : | Capsule, brown, 5-angled and 5-valved, stellately pubescent; seeds 4 in each cell, winged at one end. |