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Botanical descriptions Ecology Distribution Literature
Habit : | Small trees up to 7 m tall. |
Trunk\bark : | Bark brownish, irregularly scaly when mature; blaze yellowish. |
Branchlets : | Young branchlets angular to terete, pubescent when young, later glabrous. |
Leaves : | Leaves simple, alternate, spiral, clustered at twig ends; petiole 0.3 cm long, slender, planoconvex in cross section, pubescent when young; lamina 4-8.5 x 1-2 cm, narrow elliptic to elliptic-obovate, apex acute with mucronate tip, base obtuse or attenuate, margin entire, pubescent beneath; midrib flat or slightly canaliculate above; secondary_nerves up to 10 pairs, not prominent; tertiary_nerves broadly reticulate or obscure. |
Flowers : | Flowers yellow, in terminal heads, with involucrate silky bracts; pedicel 0.2 cm long. |
Fruit& seed : | Fruit indehiscent, dry, small, 1-seeded. |