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Habit : | Trees up to 30 m tall. |
Trunk & Bark : | Outer bark yellowish with strong boat shape fissures; blaze reddish. |
Branches and Branchlets : | Young branchlets quadrangular, drying yellowish. |
Exudates : | Sap watery turning yellow, sticky. |
Leaves : | Simple, opposite, decussate; petiole 0.3-0.5 cm long, planoconvex in cross section, glabrous; lamina 4-8 x 2-4.5 cm, usually obovate to oblanceolate, apex rounded to retuse, base rounded or subtruncate, coriaceous, glossy above; secondary_nerves numerous, close, parallel, terminating at the thick margin. |
Inflorescence / Flower : | Flowers white in axillary panicle. |
Fruit and Seed : | Drupe yellowish brown, ovoid to ellipsoid, to 1.5 cm long, 1-seeded. |