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Botanical descriptions Ecology Distribution Literature
Habit : | Trees up to 8 m tall. |
Trunk\bark : | Bark brownish, lenticellate; blaze pinkish. |
Branchlets : | Young branchlets obtusely angular, sparsely white pubescent. |
Leaves : | Leaves simple, alternate, spiral, clustered at twig ends; stipule lanceolate, caducous and leaving scar; petiole 1-3.7 cm long, canaliculate or flat above, minutely grey pubescent; lamina 10-20 (25) x 2.5-6.4 cm, narrow-elliptic to oblanceolate, apex caudate or caudate-acuminate, base subacute to cuneate, margin entire or crenulate towards apex, chartaceous, white pubescent on midrib and nerves beneath; midrib flat above; secondary_nerves 5-8 pairs, ascending, lower most pair opposite; tertiary_nerves reticulo-percurrent. |
Flowers : | Inflorescence cymose clusters of heads, ca. 0.4 cm across, axillary or from leaf scars; flowers unisexual, monoecious or dioecious, subsessile. |
Fruit& seed : | Achenes. |