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Habit : | Large trees, up to 35 tall. |
Trunk & Bark : | Bark smooth. |
Branches and Branchlets : | Branchlets stout, terete. |
Exudates : | Latex black. |
Leaves : | Leaves simple, alternate, spiral, clustered at twig ends; petiole stout, 3.8 cm long, canaliculate, ferruginous tomentose with 1 or 2 pairs of long, persistent, brown villous pubescent spurs; lamina 19-44 x 7-20 cm, oblanceolate with upper half broadly rounded or triangular, subacuminate, lower half, base cuneate to acute, margin ciliate, coriaceous, ferruginous tomentose when young, pubescent beneath when mature; midrib ciliate above, flat; secondary_nerves ca. 30 pairs; tertiary_nerves reticulate. |
Inflorescence / Flower : | Inflorescence axillary and terminal panicles, flowers polygamous. |
Fruit and Seed : | Drupe, half embedded within hypocarp, 1-seeded. |