Tree to 10 m, straggly. Bark rough, fibrous throughout, grey. Juvenile leaves usually alternate, petiolate, ovate or orbicular, sometimes peltate, bristly. Adult leaves alternate, sometimes opposite, broadly lanceolate or ovate, acuminate, thick; lamina 7.5–15 cm long, 3–5 cm wide, glossy, dark green above, strongly discolorous; lateral veins fine, at 50°–60°; intramarginal vein very close to or confluent with margin; petiole flattened or channelled, 10–20 mm long. Umbels 3–7-flowered; peduncle angular, 15–25 mm long; pedicels 15–25 mm long. Buds clavate or pyriform; operculum depressed hemispherical-conical, 2–3 mm long, 6–7 mm wide; hypanthium truncate-pyriform, 8–10 mm long, 6–7 mm wide. Fruits ovoid, subglobular or urceolate, often contracted at orifice, 20–35 mm long, 20–30 mm wide. Seeds with terminal wing, yellow-brown.
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