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Habit : | Trees up to 15 m tall. |
Trunk & Bark : | Bark greyish, smooth; blaze cream. |
Branches and Branchlets : | Branches with architecture of “ Aubreville_model ”; branchlets terete with scars of fallen leaves. |
Leaves : | Leaves simple, alternate, spiral, clustered at twig ends; stipules lanceolate, 0.3 cm long, caducous; petiole 1.8-4.5 cm long, slender, terete, swollen at both ends, glabrous; lamina 4.5-9 x 2-4.5 cm, ovate to narrow ovate, apex bluntly long acuminate, base rounded or subtruncate, margin crenate, subcoriaceous, glabrous; midrib flat above; secondary_nerves 4-7 pairs, branched with domatia in the axils beneath; tertiary_nerves reticulo-percurrent; higher order nerves strongly reticulate. |
Inflorescence / Flower : | Flowers axillary in racemes, white. |
Fruit and Seed : | Drupe, elliptic to 2 cm long, smooth, seed 1. |