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Botanical descriptions Ecology Distribution Literature
Habit : | Trees up to 7 m tall. |
Trunk\bark : | Bark smooth; blaze yellow. |
Branchlets : | Young branchlets angular to terete, minutely pubescent, lenticellate. |
Leaves : | Leaves simple, alternate, distichous; stipule lateral, linear-lanceolate, pubescent, caducous and leaving scar; petiole 0.7-1.5 cm long, canaliculate, glabrous; lamina 9-19 x 3.5-6.7 cm, narrow elliptic to elliptic-oblong, apex acuminate with mucronate tip, base acute, margin serrate-crenate, coriaceous, glabrous; midrib raised above; secondary_nerves 6-10 pairs, domatia present at axils; tertiary_nerves closely and horizontally reticulo-percurrent. |
Flowers : | Inflorescence axillary fascicled; flowers white, sessile. |
Fruit& seed : | Capsule, smooth, 3-valved; seeds 3. |