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Habit : | Trees up to 18 m tall. |
Trunk & Bark : | Bark brownish, scaly and flaky; blaze light orange. |
Branches and Branchlets : | Branchlets stout, lenticellate, glabrous. |
Leaves : | Leaves simple, alternate, spiral, clustered at twig ends; petiole stout 0.7-2 cm long, planoconvex in cross section; lamina 7-16 x 4-8.5 cm, obovate, apex obtuse or rounded, sometimes emarginate, base cuneate to acute, margin entire, coriaceous, glabrous, glaucous beneath, minutely tomentose beneath when young; midrib slightly raised above; secondary_nerves 6-10 pairs, ascending, branched; tertiary_nerves reticulo-percurrent. |
Inflorescence / Flower : | Inflorescence panicle. |
Fruit and Seed : | Berry ellipsoid, 1.4 cm long; seeds 1. |