Habit

Deciduous trees, up to 20 m tall.

Trunkark

Bark grey, smooth and thin irregularly scaly when mature.

Branchlets

Young branchlets angular to subterete, glabrous.

Leaves

Leaves simple, opposite, decussate; stipules foliacous with keeled back, interpetiolar, caducous and leaving scar; petioles 1-4 cm long, canaliculate in cross section, glabrous; lamina 16 x 10 cm, ovate, elliptic-obovate to orbiculate, apex abruptly acuminate with blunt tip, rarely acute, base acute to attenuate to subcordate, margin entire, coriaceous, glabrous; midrib flat above; secondary nerves 6-10 pairs, hairy domatia present at axils; tertiary nerves distantly obliquely retiuculo-percurrent.

Flowers

Inflorescence terminal head; flowers sessile, cream-white; calyx lobes short.

Fruit& seed

Capsules, arranged in globose heads, each with 2-folicular cocci; seeds many, winged.