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Habit : | Large shrubs to small trees up to 4 m tall. |
Branches and Branchlets : | Branchlets sparsely stellate hairy when young, glabrous when mature. |
Leaves : | Leaves simple, alternate, spiral; petiole up to 5 cm long; lamina 7.5-17.8 x 3.2-6.4 cm, elliptic-oblong, apex acuminate to caudate-acuminate, base rounded with 2-stipitate glands at the junction of petiole, margin minutely serrate, glabrous or with a few stellate hairs; midrib raised above; secondary_nerves 6-8 pairs; tertiary_nerves broadly percurrent. |
Inflorescence / Flower : | Flowers unisexual, monoecious; male flowers often fascicled on 12-25 cm long slender racemes; female flowers usually solitary and near the base of the raceme. |
Fruit and Seed : | Capsules 3-valved, globose, densely stellate hairy; 3-seeded. |