This is a common canopy tree in low and medium elevation evergreen forests up to 1500 m. This species is endemic to the Western Ghats.

Bark is smooth, lenticellate, irregularly flaky when mature and the blaze is reddish brown.

Branches are with architecture of "Aubreville's model"; The young branchlets are terete, puberulent, later it turns glabrous.

Leaves are alternate, simple, petioles 20-25 mm long, blade 7.5-10 x 3.7-5 cm.

Leaf shape could be ovate or obovate, tip is obtuse, blunt, base is narrow, margin entire, and there will be 10-12 pairs of lateral nerves.