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Habit : | Large trees, up to 35 m tall. |
Trunk & Bark : | Bark smooth, grey. |
Branches and Branchlets : | Branchlets stout, ferruginous pubescent. |
Exudates : | Latex black. |
Leaves : | Leaves simple, alternate, spiral, clustered at the twig ends; petiole 2 cm long, ferruginous tomentose, with 2 pairs of stout, densely tomentose spurs; lamina 15-44 x 10-17 cm, oblanceolate, upper half broadly triangular with acuminate apex, lower half narrow with cuneate base, margin entire, coriaceous, ferruginous tomentose beneath, glabrous above; midrib flat and glabrous above; secondary_nerves 22-32 pairs; tertiary_nerves broadly reticulate. |
Inflorescence / Flower : | Inflorescence terminal panicle, brown tomentose; flowers polygamous, white. |
Fruit and Seed : | Drupe ellipsoid and little exerted from torus, 2.2 cm long, rusty tomentose, 1-seeded. |