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Habit : | Medium sized trees, often epiphytic, to 20 m tall with aerial roots. |
Trunk & Bark : | Bark greenish-grey, smooth; blaze yellow;. |
Branches and branchlets : | Branchlets terete, glabrescent or puberulous, with annular scars. |
Exudates : | Latex white, profuse. |
Leaves : | Leaves simple, alternate, spiral; stipules 2.5 cm long, lanceolate, caducous, leaving annular scar; petiole 1.5-5 cm long, canaliculate, glabrous; lamina 5-14 x 2.5-9 cm, broadly ovate or ovate - oblong, apex acuminate with blunt tip or acute, base acute-cuneate or rounded, margin entire, thick, cartilaginous, glabrous, coriaceous; midrib raised above; secondary_nerves 8-10 pairs, slender; tertiary_nerves reticulate, obscure. |
Inflorescence / Flower : | Inflorescence syconia, monoecious, axillary, subsessile, depressed globose; flowers unisexual occurs with in the inner wall of syconia. |
Fruit and Seed : | Syconium red or purple when ripe; achenes smooth. |