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Habit : | Trees up to 12 m tall. |
Trunk & Bark : | Trunk fluted; bark brownish, fissured; blaze purplish brown. |
Branches and Branchlets : | Young branchlets terete, grey pubescent. |
Leaves : | Leaves simple, alternate, spiral; stipule caducous; petiole 1.5-7.6 cm long, inflated at both ends, pubescent, terete, striate; lamina 6-22 x 3-11.5 cm, ovate to ovate-lanceolate, apex acuminate, base acute to rounded, margin entire or serrate, chartaceous, glabrous above, pubescent with red resinous punctate beneath; trinerved_at_base; secondary_nerves ca. 7 pairs; tertiary_nerves percurrent. |
Inflorescence / Flower : | Flowers unisexual, dioecious, in terminal spikes. |
Fruit and Seed : | Capsule, globose, densely red glandular; seeds black, 1 per cell. |