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Habit : | Trees up to 15 m tall. |
Trunk & Bark : | Bark smooth to shallowly fissured, brownish; blaze pink. |
Branches and Branchlets : | Branchlets terete, glabrous. |
Leaves : | Leaves simple, alternate, spiral; stipules oblong-lanceolate, acute, caducous; petiole 0.7-1.3 cm long, canaliculate, swollen at both ends, glabrous; lamina 7.5-17 x 3-7.5 cm, narrow oblong to narrow elliptic, apex gradually acuminate to caudate-acuminate with blunt tip, base acute to rounded, chartaceous, glabrous; midrib raised above; secondary_nerves 6-9 pairs; tertiary_nerves weakly percurrent. |
Inflorescence / Flower : | Flowers unisexual, dioecious; male flowers in axillary catkins; female flowers in condensed cymes. |
Fruit and Seed : | Capsule smooth, globose, to 1.3 cm across, 2-4 seeded. |