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Habit : | Trees ca. 25 m tall. |
Trunk & Bark : | Bark greenish-black, smooth; blaze reddish. |
Branches and branchlets : | Branches horizontal; branchlets subterete, glabrous. |
Exudates : | Sap red from cut end of bark, profuse. |
Leaves : | Leaves simple, alternate, distichous; petiole 1.0-1.5 cm long, canaliculate above, glabrous; lamina 9.5-22 x 3.7-10 cm, elliptic or elliptic-oblong, apex acute or subacute, base acute or attenuate, margin entire, glossy above, glabrous and glaucous beneath, coriaceous; midrib raised above; secondary_nerves 8-14 pairs, slender, slightly impressed above; tertiary_nerves broadly reticulate or obscure. |
Inflorescence / Flower : | Flowers unisexual, urceolate, white; male flowers numerous, smaller than female flowers, in axillary cymes; female flowers in umbels, 5-6 flowered. |
Fruit and Seed : | Capsule 5-7.5 x 1.8-3.5, oblong, pubescent; seed one, oblong; aril covering the seed yellow and laciniate. |