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Habit : | Shrubs to medium sized trees, up to 10 m tall. |
Trunk & Bark : | Bark brownish, lenticellate; blaze pink. |
Branches and branchlets : | Branchlets terete, with hollow internodes, densely hispid with brown or grey hairs, lenticellate. |
Exudates : | Latex creamy white, profuse. |
Leaves : | Leaves simple, opposite, decussate; stipules to 2.5 x 1 cm, caducous, leaving annular scar; petiole 1-10 cm long, canaliculate, hispid; lamina 7-35 x3-16 (40 x 18 cm in saplings), elliptic-oblong, narrow ovate, narrow obovate, apex caudate-acuminate, base rounded subcordate or truncate-subcordate, margin entire or dentate sometimes irregularly toothed, scabrid on both surface, hispid beneath; midrib slightly raised above; 3-nerved at base; secondary_nerves 4-9 pairs, often branched, ascending; tertiary_nerves broadly reticulo-percurrent. |
Inflorescence / Flower : | Inflorescence syconia, clustered on tubercles of main trunk, older branches and sometimes on pendulous leafless branches; flowers unisexual. |
Fruit and Seed : | Syconium, globose, up to 2.5 cm across. |