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Habit : | Trees up to 16 m tall. |
Branches and branchlets : | Branchlets terete, glabrous, with large lenticels. |
Leaves : | Leaves simple, alternate, distichous; stipule caducous and leaving scar; petiole ca. 1.5 cm long, canaliculate, glabrous, reddish brown; lamina 7-19 x 3- 7.5 cm, elliptic-oblong or elliptic-lanceolate, apex obtusely short or long acuminate acumen twisted, base asymmetric or cuneate or attenuate, margin entire, shining above, glabrous, coriaceous, with pellucid transparent dots and lines, blackish green when dry; midrib raised above; secondary_nerves 10-12 pairs; tertiary_nerves broadly reticulate. |
Inflorescence / Flower : | Flowers ca. 0.4 cm across, greenish white. |
Fruit and Seed : | Capsule globular, ca. 2 cm long, orange yellow when ripe. |