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Habit : | Trees up to 8 m tall. |
Trunk & Bark : | Bark greyish, minutely lenticellate; blaze orange. |
Branches and Branchlets : | Branchlets terete, glabrous. |
Leaves : | Leaves simple, alternate, spiral; stipule triangular, caducous; petiole 0.6-2 cm long, canaliculate, glabrous; lamina 6-18 x 2.3-9 cm, narrow elliptic to lanceolate, apex acuminate or acute with blunt tip, base acute to rounded, margin undulate or distantly obscurely crenulate with marginal glands at the crenatures, subcoriaceous, glabrous; secondary_nerves 6-11 pairs; tertiary_nerves broadly reticulate. |
Inflorescence / Flower : | Flowers unisexual, dioecious; male flowers white, in cymes; female flower solitary or 2-3 together, terminal or leaf opposed. |
Fruit and Seed : | Capsule, globose, hairy, 3-lobed; fruiting_calyx 4-5 oblong-lanceolate unequal lobes; seeds 3. |