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Botanical descriptions Habitat and ecology Distribution
Diagnostic characters : | Trees with whorled sessile leaves, 50-80 pairs of secondary veins, glands on the leaves axils. |
Habit : | Columnar tree up to 25 m tall, branches ascending to main trunk. |
Trunk & bark : | Bark greyish, deeply lenticellate, inner bark pale reddish. |
Branches and branchlets or twigs : | Branchlets glabrous and strongly lenticellate. |
Exudates : | Latex white, copious. |
Leaves : | Leaves small, grouped in whorls of 3 - 5, sized 3-13 by 0.5-2.5 cm, elliptic, apex acuminate, base attenuate and decurrent, margin entire, blade subcoriaceous and glabrous with glands on the axils. Midrib raised above, primary vein single, secondary veins more than 50 pairs, oblique to the midrib, and closely parallel, tertiary veins ramified admedial. Stipules absent. |
Inflorescences or flowers : | Flowers small, whitish or creamy, densely velvety, many in number, with sweet smell. |
Fruits : | Fruit compound of a pair of follicles, 6.1-7.5 cm long, 5 mm wide, glabrous. |
Seeds : | Seeds many, glabrous and ciliate. |