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Habit : | Trees up to 6 m tall. |
Branches and Branchlets : | Bark greyish brown, smooth; blaze reddish brown. |
Branches and Branchlets : | Young branchlets stellate hairy. |
Exudates : | Latex white, not profuse. |
Leaves : | Leaves simple, alternate, spiral; petioles 1.3-4 cm long, swollen at both ends, stellate hairy; lamina 9.5-22.5 x 4.9-10.4 cm, elliptic to obovate, apex acuminate with blunt tip, base obtuse or acute, margin entire; midrib flat above; secondary_nerves 12-14 pairs, prominent beneath; tertiary_nerves reticulo-percurrent. |
Inflorescence / Flower : | Inflorescence panicle, shorter than leaves. |
Fruit and Seed : | Capsule, oblong or obovoid, beaked, 2.5-4 cm long, densely rusty-tomentose. |