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Habit : | Large buttressed tree, up to 40 m tall. |
Trunk & Bark : | Trunk hollow in very old trees; bark grey, smooth; blaze pink. |
Branches and Branchlets : | Branchlets terete, glabrous. |
Exudates : | Watery exudation from the cut end of the bark. |
Leaves : | Leaves simple, opposite or subopposite; petiole up to 1.5 cm long, canaliculate; lamina 7-8 x 2.5-3.5 cm, elliptic, apex acuminate and twisted, base acute to cuneate, margins crenate, glabrous; midrib raised above; secondary_nerves 7-9 pairs; tertiary_nerves reticulate. |
Inflorescence / Flower : | Inflorescence cymes; flower greenish white, petals spathulate. |
Fruit and Seed : | Drupe, globose, apiculate, 2-seeded. |