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Habit : | Evergreen tree, up to 30 m tall, with aerial roots, usually epiphytic when young. |
Trunk & Bark : | Bark green, smooth; blaze cream. |
Branches and branchlets : | Branchlets terete, pubescent. |
Exudates : | Latex milky, profuse. |
Leaves : | Leaves simple, alternate, spiral; stipules 0.5 cm long, ovate, pubescent, caducous and leaving annular scar; petioles 1-3 cm long, canaliculate, pubescent when young; lamina 5- 12.7 x 1.2-6.4 cm, ovate or elliptic, apex caudate-acuminate to caudate with blunt tip, base cuneate-acute, margin entire, coriaceous, shining above; midrib raised above; secondary_nerves 8-10 pairs, looped near margin; tertiary_nerves admedially ramified. |
Inflorescence / Flower : | Inflorescence syconia, sessile, in axillary pairs, depressed globose; flowers unisexual. |
Fruit and Seed : | Syconium globose, 0.5-0.6 cm across. |