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Botanical descriptions Habitat and ecology Distribution
| Diagnostic characters : | Evergreen trees, branches horizontal. Exudate resinous, reddish-orange. Phyllodes-leaf-like (whithout primary vein) simple, opposite, glabrous. Fruits cone-like male and female on separate trees, axillary, female solitary, male in groups of 3-5. |
| Habit : | An upright evergreen tree, reaching up to 10 (30) m. tall, about 25 cm. in DBH. Upright with a conical crown. |
| Trunk & bark : | Trunk straight, cylindrical, bark dark brown or grey brown. Smooth to scaly flaky bark, peeling in large irregular flakes; inner bark whitish red or brown with brownish resin, sapwood white. |
| Branches and branchlets or twigs : | Branches spreading horizontal, whorled and buds roundish. |
| Exudates : | Reddish-orange resin and scented. |
| Leaves : | Leaf-like organs simple, opposite or subopposite, decussate, ovate to elliptic, dark green above, and light green below, up to 10-15 cm. long and 3-5 cm. wide, apex acuminate, base acute to attenuate, margin entire, stomatal line on both sides. |
| Fruits : | Cone-like, male and fermale on separate trees, female solitary, axillary, male in axillary clusters of 3-5. |
| Seeds : | Seed globose, about 2 cm. in diameter, with beak, black when ripe and surrounded by a purple-red aril-like structure (epimatium). |