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Habit : | Trees up to 20 m tall. |
Trunk & Bark : | Bark brownish, usually smooth, irregulary flaky; blaze reddish. |
Branches and branchlets : | Branches verticillate and horizontal; young branchlets terete, rusty tomentose. |
Exudates : | Sap red from cut end of bark, profuse. |
Leaves : | Leaves simple, alternate, distichous; petiole 0.6-1.3 cm, stout, canaliculate, fulvous stellate tomentose when young and glabrous when mature; lamina 12-23 x 3.5-8 cm, narrow oblong to oblong or narrow-elliptic to lanceolate, apex gradually acute to acuminate, base rounded or acute, margin entire, chartaceous to subcoriaceous, shining above, glaucous beneath, fulvous stellate tomentose when young; midrib raised above; secondary_nerves prominent, 13-21 pairs, gradually curved, prominently raised beneath and slightly raised above; tertiary_nerves closely obliquely percurrent. |
Inflorescence / Flower : | Flowers unisexual, dioecious; male flowers on short axillary peduncle, fulvous stellate tomentose; female flowers 1-3, pedicel up to 0.8 cm long. |
Fruit and Seed : | Capsule, elliptic, to 4 cm long, 2-valved, apiculate, fulvous tomentose; seed one with crimson red lacinated aril. |