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Habit : | Tall deciduous trees, up to 15 m tall. |
Trunk & Bark : | Bark greyish white, peeling off in to flakes. |
Leaves : | Leaves simple, alternate, spiral, clustered at twig ends; petiole canaliculate, sheathing at base and leaving annular scar when fall; lamina to 60 x 20 cm, broadly obovate; apex acute or slightly acuminate, base cuneate, margin denticulate with villous teeth, pubescent on midrib and nerves beneath; midrib canaliculate above; secondary_nerves many parallel, ending in to the teeth; tertiary_nerves, percurrent. |
Inflorescence / Flower : | Flowers yellow, fascicled on old leafless branches. |
Fruit and Seed : | Globose indehiscent carpels, fleshy, enveloping with thickened fleshy sepals; seeds 1 or 2 per carpel. |