dhok

In China, where it is known as 榆绿木 (yu lü mu), these trees grow to 20 m (66 ft) tall with a trunk to 1 m (3 ft 3 in) in diameter at breast height. In Myanmar they may be larger: up to 30 m (98 ft) tall and up to 2.7 m (8 ft 10 in) girth, with a straight and cylindrical trunk. The branchlets are slightly pendent, slender, together with petioles and leaf blades golden villous when young. The petioles are cylindrical, 2–6 mm and the leaf blades are lanceolate to narrowly so, 40-80 × 10–30 mm long, grey-green on the back and pilose mostly in the axils of lateral veins. They are green and glabrous to glabrescent on the leaf surface. The leaf base is narrowed or obtuse, the apex acuminate. There are five to seven inconspicuous lateral veins in pairs. The flowers are numerous sessile on flower heads 9–13 mm in diameter; bracts are easily deciduous and linear, 4–5 mm long. The calyx tubes are approximately 5 mm long, abaxially yellow pubescent, densely so on ovary and tubular part, and more sparsely so on the cup-shaped part. The filaments are 3–4 mm long. The fruits are approximately 6 × 5 mm long including a "beak". They are ferruginous pubescent distally and on the beak. Terminalia pendula flowers between February and March in Bangladesh and Thailand.