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Habit : | Large trees, up to 30 m tall. |
Trunk & Bark : | Bark smooth, brownish; blaze pinkish cream. |
Branches and Branchlets : | Branchlets stout, terete, glabrous with scars of fallen leaves and stipules. |
Leaves : | Leaves simple, alternate, spiral, clustered at twig ends, stipules large, to 2.5 cm long, lanceolate, caducous; petiole 2.5-4.5 cm long, swollen at both ends; lamina 10-18 x 4.5-8.5 cm elliptic-oblong to narrow-ovate, apex obtusely acute or short acuminate with folded, base rounded, coriaceous, shining above, glabrous; secondary_nerves 11 to 20 pairs, strong, nearly parallel, oblique to midrib; tertiary_nerves closely_horizontally_percurrent, slender. |
Inflorescence / Flower : | Inflorescence terminal, panicled racemes; flowers small, white. |
Fruit and Seed : | Capsule, red, 2 lobed; seeds 1 per lobe. |