Botanical descriptions Ecology Distribution Literature
| Habit : | Trees up to 15 m tall. |
| Trunk\bark : | Trunk flutted; bark whitish, smooth, fissured when mature; balze yellowish. |
| Branchlets : | Young branchlets angular to compressed, glabrous; apical bud usually exudes yellow resin. |
| Leaves : | Leaves simple, opposite, decussate; stipules narrow triangular to 0.7 cm long, glabrous; petiole 0.6-1.5 cm long, slightly canaliculate above, glabrous; lamina 10-13 x 4-7 cm, elliptic to elliptic-ovate, apex acuminate with blunt tip or obtuse, base attenuate, margin entire, coriaceous, glabrous; midrib raised above; secondary_nerves 5-8 pairs, hairy domatia present at axils; tertiary_nerves broadly reticulate. |
| Flowers : | Inflorescence axillary fascicles; flowers polygamodioecious, minute, sessile. |
| Fruit& seed : | Berry globose, up to 2 cm long; seed many, flat. |