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Habit : | Trees, up to 30 m tall. |
Trunk & Bark : | Bark greyish-brown, lenticellate. |
Branches and Branchlets : | Branches whorled; branchlets terete, glabrous. |
Exudates : | Latex milky white. |
Leaves : | Leaves simple, whorled with 4-7 unequal leaves; petiole 0.4-1.5 cm long; lamina 6-20 x 2.5-7 cm, narrow elliptic-oblanceolate, apex rounded or emarginate, base cuneate to decurrent, coriaceous or subcoriaceous, shining above, glaucous beneath; secondary_nerves many, closely parallel with intramarginal vein; tertiary_nerves obscure. |
Inflorescence / Flower : | Flowers bisexual, in terminal and lateral, paniculate cyme, greenish white. |
Fruit and Seed : | Follicles, linear 20-50 cm long; seeds many, linear-oblong, flat with a fringe of long hairs at both ends. |