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| Habit : | Large trees, up to 20 m tall. |
| Trunk & Bark : | Bark brown with shallow fissures; blaze whitish with brown grains. |
| Branches and Branchlets : | Branchlets terete, young parts rusty tomentose. |
| Leaves : | Leaves usually subopposite or upper ones alternate; petiole 0.6 - 1.7 cm long, subterete, subglabrous; lamina 9-18 x 4.5-7 cm, oblong or ovate-oblong, apex acuminate, base rounded to cordate, coriaceous, slightly silky pubescent on both surface, glabrous when mature, coriaceous, black above when dry; midrib thinly raised above; secondary_nerves 10-15 pairs, gradually curved; tertiary_nerves slender reticulo-percurrent; sessile glands in pair at the junction of petiole and midrib beneath. |
| Inflorescence / Flower : | Inflorescence panicled spikes; flowers pale white. |
| Fruit and Seed : | Samara, brownish red, unequally winged, middle wing larger, 1-seeded. |