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Habit : | Deciduous trees up to 25 m tall. |
Trunk & Bark : | Bark dark brown; blaze red. |
Branches and branchlets : | Branchlets terete, glabrous. |
Exudates : | Latex white, profuse. |
Leaves : | Leaves simple, alternate, spiral; stipules foliaceous, 0.7 cm long, caducous and leaving annular scar; petiole ca. 6 cm long, canaliculate, glabrous; lamina to 20 x 8 cm, oblong, elliptic-oblong, apex acuminate, base rounded, coriaceous, margin entire, glabrous and glossy; basally 3-nerved; midrib raised above; secondary_nerves 6-10 pairs, prominent and parallel, looped near the margin; tertiary_nerves reticulate. |
Inflorescence / Flower : | Inflorescence syconia, sessile, depressed - globose, in clusters of 2-6, on very short crowded tubercles in the axils of the leaves or most frequently at the scars of fallen leaves; flowers unisexual. |
Fruit and Seed : | Syconium, sessile, ca. 0.5 cm across, greenish; achenes smooth. |