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Botanical descriptions Ecology Distribution Literature
Habit : | Tree up to 8 m tall. |
Trunk\bark : | Bark brownish, fissured when mature; blaze pinkish. |
Branchlets : | Branchlets terete, glabrous. |
Leaves : | Leaves simple, alternate, distichous; stipule caducous and leaving scar; petioles ca.0.3 cm long, planoconvex in cross section, glabrous; lamina 9 x 3 cm, elliptic or elliptic-oblong, apex acuminate with mucronate tip, base asymmetric and attenuate - decurrent, margin entire; midrib flat or slightly raised above; secondary_nerves 5-10 pairs; tertiary_nerves horizontally reticulo-percurrent. |
Flowers : | Inflorescence in axillary fascicles; flowers unisexual, monoecious. |
Fruit& seed : | Capsule depressed, 3-6 lobed. |