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Botanical descriptions Habitat and ecology Distribution
Diagnostic characters : | Simple leaves with strong sagittate base, stipules present. |
Habit : | Deciduous or evergreen tree up to 15 m tall. |
Trunk & bark : | Bole straight, bark brown, slightly flaky. |
Branches and branchlets or twigs : | Twigs terete, hairy. |
Exudates : | Exudate absent. |
Leaves : | Leaves alternate and spiral, elliptic, below pubescent with stellate hairs, apex cuspidate, base asymmetrical, one side strongly arrow-shaped, margin strongly toothed in upper half. Basal veins 3-5, secondary veins oblique, tertiary veins oblique. Stipules present, large, free. |
Inflorescences or flowers : | Flowers solitary, axillary, bisexual, pedicels longer than 0.5 cm. |
Fruits : | Fruit a capsule, up to 8 cm long, woody, splitting in 5 sections. |
Seeds : | Seeds many, ovoid with a thin wing. |