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Botanical descriptions Habitat and ecology Distribution
| Diagnostic characters : | Evergreen trees, bark smooth sometimes fissured, twigs hairy, exudates red. Leaves simple, alternate and distichous, below with stellate hairs. Flowers unisexual on different trees. Fruit capsule-like, seed with an aril. |
| Habit : | Evergreen tree up to 20 m tall. |
| Trunk & bark : | Bole straight, bark dark grey-brown, smooth, rarely tending to crack. |
| Branches and branchlets or twigs : | Twigs terete, hairy. |
| Exudates : | Exudate red. |
| Leaves : | Leaves simple, alternate and distichous, oblong to lanceolate, apex acuminate, base rounded, margin simple, stellate hairs present below. Stipules absent. |
| Inflorescences or flowers : | Flowers arranged in a few-flowered inflorescence, axillary, on short shoots, unisexual, on different trees, pedicels up to 3 mm long. |
| Fruits : | Fruit capsule like follicle, up to 1.5 cm in diameter, leathery, splitting in two sections. |
| Seeds : | Seed 1, surrounded by an aril which is divided only at top. |