Straight trunk with smelly, resinous, peeling, greyish bark. The young flush is reddish-brown. The stout branchlets are marked with leaf scars, angular towards the apex, light brown and velvety. The terminal bud is silvery, and give rise to brownish-purple young flush. Leaves are 8-15 cm long and 4-6 cm broad, spirally arranged, with short internodes, and are broadly elliptic in shape with an unequal, pointed base and a blunt apex with veins conspicuously impressed above. Flowers seen in compact clusters up to 2.5-7.5 cm in length on thick fleshy stalks. Male and female flowers are borne separately. The fruit is ovoid and about 1.0 cm.