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Habit : | Trees up to 8 m tall. |
Branches and Branchlets : | Branchlets terete, pubescent. |
Leaves : | Leaves simple, alternate, spiral; petiole up to 1.5 cm long, tomentose; lamina 15 x 5.5 cm, oblong, apex caudate, base rounded to subacute, tomentose along midrib beneath; midrib raised above; secondary_nerves 7-9 pairs, looped; tertiary_nerves broadly reticulate. |
Inflorescence / Flower : | Inflorescence axillary; flowers unisexual, dioecious; male flowers in axillary catkins, up to 1.5 cm long; female in short few flowered cymes. |
Fruit and Seed : | Capsule 2 cm long, ovoid, beaked, softly echinate, tomentose; stigma persistent with 6 subulate lobes. |