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Habit : | Large trees, up to 35 m tall. |
Trunk & Bark : | Bark smooth, often with scars of irregular flakes. |
Branches and Branchlets : | Branches with architecture of “Aubreville_model”, Branchlets stout, glabrous. |
Exudates : | Latex white, not profuse. |
Leaves : | Leaves simple, alternate, spiral, clustered at twig ends; petiole less than 0.5 cm long, stout, glabrous, planoconvex in cross section; lamina 6.5-19 x 1.8-7 cm, oblanceolate or spathulate, apex obtuse or rounded (slightly acuminate in young trees), base cuneate to decurrent, margin entire, coriaceous, glabrous; midrib flat above; secondary_nerves 12-18 pairs; tertiary_nerves reticulo-percurrent or broadly reticulate. |
Inflorescence / Flower : | Inflorescence axillary or terminal panicles, 8-10 cm long, tomentose; flowers bisexual, white. |
Fruit and Seed : | Drupe, woody, globose, 3.8 cm across, 1-seeded. |