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| Habit : | Large deciduous trees, buttressed, up to 40 m tall. |
| Trunk & Bark : | Bark whitish, longitudinally fissured. |
| Branches and Branchlets : | Branchlets terete, glabrous. |
| Leaves : | Leaves simple, alternate, spiral, clustered at the twig ends; petiole 3-10 cm long; flat above, with pair of sessile glands just above the middle, sometimes indistinct; lamina 8-20 x 4-14 cm, broad elliptic or broad obovate, apex rounded to abruptly short acuminate, base cuneate, margin entire, coriaceous, pubescent, when young on both sides, later glabrous; midrib flat above; secondary_nerves 6-8 pairs, gradually curved; tertiary_nerves reticulo-percurrent. |
| Inflorescence / Flower : | Inflorescence axillary spikes; flowers sessile, creamy white. |
| Fruit and Seed : | Drupe, globose or ovoid, slightly 5 ridged, 3 cm across; 1-seeded. |