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Habit : | Trees buttressed, up to 25 m tall. |
Trunk & Bark : | Bark smooth, black, flaky. |
Branches and Branchlets : | Young branchlets terete, yellowish, with apical and axillary buds black, hairy. |
Leaves : | Leaves simple, alternate, distichous; petiole 1-1.5 cm long; lamina 8.5-20 x 3-7 cm, elliptic-oblong to elliptic-lanceolate, apex acute to acuminate with blunt tip, base acute to attenuate, coriaceous, glabrous; midrib canaliculate above, stout beneath; secondary_nerves 5-9 pairs, lower pairs closer than above ones; tertiary_nerves strongly reticulate on both surfaces. |
Inflorescence / Flower : | Flowers dioecious; male flowers axillary, 3-8 in cymes; female flowers solitary, axillary with on short pedicels. |
Fruit and Seed : | Berry, globose, up to 7 cm in diameter, rusty brown scurfy_tomentum, fruiting_calyx foliaceous, densely black haired inside; seeds 8. |