A medium-sized tree of the rainforest, up to 25 m and 60 cm. Ø; bole straight but angular, with characteristic rounded pits in the bark. Twigs with conspicuous scars at nodes but stipules absent (type 0). Slash reddish, thick, and fibrous, with bitter brown exudate. Leaves simple, opposite, pit domatia present; venation lax scalariform. See also PROTA database.