A medium-sized tree up to 24 m tall, bole up to 60 cm in diameter, bark surface smooth, lenticellate, greyish-brown, inner bark pinkish. Leaves opposite or subopposite, (5-)7.5-30 cm x 2-13 cm, base cuneate, rarely rounded, apex blunt to acute, often glaucous below, 3-veined, main veins prominent above, tertiary venation scalariform to scalariform-reticulate, faint to distinct below, petiole 1--2 cm long. Inflorescence an axillary or terminal panicle, up to 18 cm long; flowers sometimes partly unisexual, densely silky hairy. Fruit oblong to narrowly ovoid, c. 1.5 cm x 1 cm, seated on a perianth cup with persistent perianth lobes.

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For the treatment of rheumatism and fever (roots)