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Fodder - It is very popular fodder tree in mid-hills of Nepal.
Bhutan, China, India, Myanmar, Nepal
Thrives in sparse mountain forests, thickets, valleys, at an elevation of 750-2100 m.
It is a tree species typically growing to a height of 4-20 m.
Stem is with young branches (branchlets), brown in color and can be velvety or smooth in texture.
Leaves are narrowly elliptic to oblong-obovate, 13-36 cm long, 7-15 cm broad, thinly leathery, sparsely rusty velvety below, smooth above, with prominent lateral veins 28-40 pairs. Base blunt to rounded to wedge-shaped, margin finely toothed, tip long-pointed to pointed.
Flowers are pink to purplish, 0.8-1.5 cm in diameter. Sepals are unequal, outer 3 smaller, elliptic to broadly elliptic, inner 2 larger, broadly elliptic to circular. Petals are oblong, fused at base, curled back at apex. Stamens are 50-90. Ovary is spherical, styles 4 or 5, fused below the middle.
Fruit is green to yellowish, spherical to depressed-spherical, ribbed or slightly ribbed.
Flowering: May-December.