A large tree with smooth whitish or greyish-green bark with slate-coloured patches. Young parts rusty-pubescent. Leaves alternate or sub-opposite, ovate or ovate-lanceolate, apex obtuse or emarginate, glabrous when old, base rounded. Flowers sessile, small, in globose heads. Peduncle slender, yellowish. Calyx-tube compressed, 2-winged, pubescent, teeth acute. Fruit a dry drupe.

• Habit: Tree ; Plant Height: 39 ft ; Habitat: Xerophyte ; Root: Tap root ; Leaf Type: Simple ; Leaf Shape: Oblong & Elliptic & Ovate ; Leaf margins: Entire ; Leaf Arrangement: Alternate ; Inflorescence Type: Head ; Flower Color: Yellow